An entertaining discussion appeared this morning in the neighborhood Facebook page:
(I give up trying to format this thing! Sorry for the glitches…Facebook content just does NOT carry over into blog format with any consistency. Gaaaaah!)
Top contributor
F’r cryin’ out loud. Fountain Hills looks better and better
Top Contributer
Listening in on the police scanner and it seems it was a break in/home invasion of some sort and they were trying to locate the suspect. He’s in custody now and we can all rest tonight ◡
Top contributor They got him.
Beth M:
Fernando M. any details where they nabbed him?
Fernando M:
Beth M: at the third house in on 15th Ave and Harmont.
Fernando M.
Which house?!? We are on Harmont and 15th Drive!
Andrea R. A.:
Squad was parked at 17dr/Griswald. Squad car just flew past my house, heli is low. Squad car just down the street near neighbors house
Michelle B-I:
Andrea R.A. are they at the dead end near my moms?
Andrea R A
Michelle B-I yes they were now at Royal Palm
Aimey O B:
Andrea R. A. there was one parked down here at 16th & Griswold also, for abiut 1/2 hr. Then we heard he was in the yard under a tree on royal palms, ‘3rd house west of 16dr red roof’ that’s when the helicopter left so assuming that’s where they apprehended him.
Andrea R.A:
Aimey Odom Bussing thanks for the update
Laura Rodriguez:
Thank you all for the updates! Woke up to the helicopters and knew I could count on our neighbors looking out for the neighborhood. Great to have neighbors with police scanners. Might need to get one.
Emily G.:
Laura R. there’s an app, Scanner Radio
Fernando M:
They have a dog out now
Fernando M:
I’m listening to the police scanner and they are trying to surround someone. Preparing for “him” to jump the wall
Noël D:
Fernando M: did you hear them say it was from a break in/home invasion? I read from somewhere else it was someone running from a traffic stop
Emily W:
Top contributor
I hope everyone is ok. I’m glad they caught the person but it sounds like they did some harm first.
Emily W:
Top contributor
There’s a cop on the corner of 15th ave and royal palm. Not sure what’s going on though
Sonya V.
Been going on a VERY long time flying low, spotlights from helicopter in our yard, voices from helicopter but can’t understand what they are saying. 16th ave and las palmaritas. Any news yet on what’s going on?
Eric T:
I guess no sleep tonight going to be a long day tomorrow
Fernando M:
Royal palm and harmony alley
Fernando M:
I’m someone’s yard jumping to the alley
Fernando M:
He is in the church parking lot
Jessica L. G.:
Heard two loud bangs that woke us up about 30min ago, cops have surrounded the park since, husband saw someone across the street picking up something off the sidewalk on the park side, then ran north on 15th ave just before cops got here
Fernando M:
They just came over the speaker and said you are surrounded!
Aimey O.B.:
I was sitting at the kitchen table working (everyone else was asleep) & all of a sudden our entire backyard was lit up like daylight!! (16th dr & griswold) For several seconds! Freaked me out!! I woke up my fiancé & we watched as cops searched the alley rt behind our house w k-9 & followed them on the scanner!! Wont be falling off to sleep anytime soon after all that!!
Beth M:
I don’t know, I heard voices that sounded like it was from the copter and my backyard keeps getting lit up.
Gail G.O.:
Doesn’t sound like they had them surrounded.
Patti C:
There’s a police car on 17th drive and Harmont. Copter had been circling over my house with lights. I assumed it was something with the apartments or light rail but must be more than that
Andre W:
Top contributor
That glass of wine, didn’t realize anything strange was happening last night.
Jeanne D:
Wow that’s crazy
Ahhh yes. Business as usual here in our beautiful home…
Every time I think about moving to Fountain Hills (or the South of France), I’m reminded of the cop who chatted with me after the Great Home Invasion episode. I remarked to him that maybe I should move to Scottsdale or some such. He said — these are his words, indeed — “Don’t do that! We go to these things all over the Valley. It doesn’t matter where you live. This stuff happens all the time.”
And yea verily, even in stodgy, muffled Sun City, a year or two ago a couple of thugs invaded a home out there. They herded the homeowner’s male house guest into a bedroom and shot him in the head.
Unlikely they could have known the guy. The house guests would have been from out of town. He probably mouthed off to them.
What a place!