Police search for suspicious bicyclist near Irvington Road, Tucson AZ
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Suspicious ActivityAs discussed during the dispatch call, officers investigated a report of a suspicious male wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans who fled on a bicycle along the Santa Cruz wash near W Irvington Road in Tucson. Police lost sight of the man multiple times as he moved between the wash and nearby neighborhoods. An aerial unit assisted in the search, but the individual was not immediately located.
Audio|Heard on: Tucson Police South Division
Listen to dispatch call
05:47
Transcript:
00:00
One five zero, nine six seven.
00:07
We'll have bike traffic.
00:09
Irvington and Santa Cruz.
00:15
Copy.
00:21
What direction?
00:23
He's taking the bike trail.
00:29
Air unit seven seven.
00:33
He had a red hoodie.
00:35
Blue jeans.
00:36
Unknown male, he had his hoodie up.
01:33
I lost visual of him.
01:43
He is running back north, going towards Irvington.
01:50
He's underneath a bridge and I lost visual.
02:07
Lost visual of him near Irvington and South Valley Road.
02:23
He circled back north towards Irvington.
02:31
If you see my car with the lights,
02:36
He was running towards my car essentially.
02:48
West side.
02:56
Is it an area we can set containment up on?
03:04
Negative. I think he was still on his bike.
03:19
He was running west side.
03:26
I'll be on Drexel on the east side with my lights facing west.
03:45
He was initially going north, then got into the wash and circled back south towards Irvington again.
04:03
We're going to walk it real quick.
04:12
Do you think he made it past Irvington?
04:19
I think so.
04:21
By the time I got to Irvington, it had been a couple minutes, and he was not too far from it.
04:32
Probably not a bad idea to get into the neighborhoods on the west side of the wash off of Midvale.
04:38
Some bike path exits into those neighborhoods.
04:56
Turn back around and go north on Santa Cruz.
04:59
We have somebody walking, but I can't identify.
05:07
He went east side of the little structure that I'm lighting up.
05:12
As soon as we lit it up, he stopped walking.
05:38
It's just another unhoused person you're lighting up with the laser.
05:46
Copy that.
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Location mentioned:
W Irvington Rd, Tucson, AZ
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