Police search for suspect following minor at apartment complex, Tucson AZ


Police responded to a welfare check near North First Avenue involving a 13-year-old student who was followed by a male suspect. Officers searched an apartment complex for the suspect, described as a light-complexion male, shirtless, wearing a hat and jeans, with tattoos. The suspect was seen near a specific apartment, and police coordinated a search to locate him and protect those involved.
Audio|Source: Tucson Police West Division
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Transcript:
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Copy a broadcast for a level 3 check welfare.
00:02
Near North First Avenue, there is a 13-year-old student who was followed by a male.
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Sector 5, 1451.
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Right.
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Nobody else should be inside of the house.
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She has no pets and she last got a message from him approximately one minute ago.
00:15
Do you,
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I do have a description. All right, seven, seven, I'll try and 21[1], this suspect.
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2013. I need a couple of units to at least get along I'm at residents.
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2094, I'll work on it.
00:26
Sam[2]'s head. I'll try to get one.
00:27
I'll have to enter the complex.
00:28
Is there a gate?
00:29
Oh, negative is no gate.
00:31
I'm trying to get the northern entrance.
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I'm going to go to the southeast entrance.
00:35
Actually just southeast part of the apartment.
00:37
I'll be out on foot after that.
00:39
I do 14.
00:42
So level one we're getting updated description.
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He's a number two male wearing a hat, long hair, but no shirt.
00:47
Black and yellow riding on the hat, jeans and a cowboy hat, facial hair, scruffy beard.
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He's going to be light complexion.
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I day for watching. And to the concern,
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we've got eyes on the north end of the building.
00:55
There's a driveway at the center of the complex that was from south.
00:58
Target building should be the second one just east of that driveway.
01:02
For the map, I believe unit faces north.
01:06
We've got a subject sitting outside.
01:10
Looks like the target unit. Lee was shirtless.
01:11
I don't know if you have a clothing description.
01:13
They said he was wearing a button-up shirt.
01:14
Or, might just...
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...nonland descriptors. Ten-for his mind on the tone.
01:18
He was underneath the farewell of that second building and he saw stuff back in.
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He belonged on his eyes on him.
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I'm sort of the high unit.
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Bottom floor apartment I take it and it's closer to the center of the center of the complex on the north end.
01:34
I'm going to be moving up with the samanator in the vehicle for cover.
01:37
Cut. Lincoln 710 4th of the bottom unit.
01:39
I believe it's a north facing.
01:40
If we can get unit to respond off the southern entrance and all the way towards the east side of the complex.
01:46
Stay on the eastern wing, parking lot of this apartment complex.
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Just in case he makes a break that way away from us.
01:54
Be cognizant of any crossfire.
01:56
Be able to go southbound from the middle of the complex or just east-west.
02:01
I mean, you can probably come south as well.
02:04
There's a parking lot in the middle.
02:05
Okay, and that apartment is east or west of that parking lot in the middle.
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Lincoln 7, the apartment should be east of that center driveway of the complex.
02:15
Okay, where are you used to us?
02:19
Okay, do you have cover with you?
02:21
Yeah, I do.
02:22
Okay, what was the last description given on him?
02:24
To Lincoln 7th, could you confirm if he was shirtless?
02:27
Yeah, it was shirtless through us, past.
02:29
We were provided that he was number two male.
02:31
Is he come back in anywhere or is he kind of hunkered around that area?
02:35
I'm really still hunkered down around that area, where that's farewell is.
02:39
We don't have eyes on that for since he sucked out into there.
02:42
He's never come back out.
02:43
We're going to try and push out a little bit wide to see if we get a better view on him.
02:46
277. He has (number withheld) tattooed across his chest and rose tattoos on his arm.
02:51
Fucking up with the canine.
02:53
They can respond from the south and then units from the left.
02:58
We can start moving on this way too.
03:00
Therefore, we're moving with the vehicle.
03:02
We've got long gun, 40.
03:03
I'm going to see the south.
03:04
It's completely south and left with you guys.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
21: Contact or communication by telephone.
[2]
Sam: Phonetic code for the letter S
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Location mentioned:
Near N 1st Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719
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