AZMEX UPDATE 21 JUN 2018
Note: unknown at this time how or where he got the handgun. AZ driver's license?
As a driver's license is the primary form of ID when purchasing a firearm.
Thx
PD: 1 man behind 9 shootings in Phoenix, Mesa, Glendale
Posted: Jun 20, 2018 6:21 PM MST
Updated: Jun 21, 2018 9:03 AM MST
By Catherine Holland
http://www.azfamily.com/story/38472685/pd-one-man-behind-9-shootings-in-phoenix-mesa-glendale?autostart=true
VIDEO: Timeline of one-man crime spree
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Luis Arreola Beltran Avalos (Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -
A grand jury has indicted a Phoenix man on more than nearly 30 felony charges in connection with a string of shootings in three cities.
Police arrested Luis Arreola Beltran Avalos, 23, in late May, believing him to be involved in nine shootings – seven in Phoenix and one each in Mesa and Glendale – going back to early March.
[MUGSHOT: Luis Arreola Beltran Avalos]
Possible road rage appears to have been a factor in at least three of the shootings, including one on April 7, 2018 near 43rd Avenue and Thomas Road.
According to court paperwork, Bertran Avalos told police he fired because he saw a man with a gun in another vehicle.
"He related he did not see the other male point a firearm at him, but he did discharge the firearm," the arresting officers wrote, documenting that the incident was recorded by a surveillance camera.
Road rage again came into play on Apri 10, 2018 in the area of 39th Avenue and McDowell Road.
Police wrote in court documents that Bertran Avalos said he was "chasing another vehicle when the codefendant discharged the firearm several times."
No information about that codefendant was immediately available.
An innocent man in a parked car was wounded in that incident.
In yet another incident, this one on April 16, 2016 in the area of 19th Avenue and Colter Street, Beltran Avalos told police a driver on a cell phone cut him off at an intersection.
"He did discharge the firearm because he was angry about people getting away with things like this," the arresting officer wrote in the probable cause statement.
The last incident took place at the west Phoenix apartment complex in the area of 45th and Virginia avenues. That address is listed on court documents as Beltran Avalos' home.
"[Beltran Avalos] related he had discharged the firearm from the apartment because his neighbor came to his door, telling him he thought he was being chased," according to the probable cause for arrest statement for the Phoenix shootings. His intent, according to the court documents, was "to scare away the unknown person."
Police said ballistics evidence links a gun Beltran was seen carrying while under surveillance – a Sig Sauer 40 mm (?) handgun that officers later found at his home – to all nine of the shootings.
"Of the first six shootings, five of them occurred within five miles of Luis's [west Phoenix] residence," reads paperwork from the North Mesa Justice Court. "Three of them occurred within a mile."
Police had Beltran Avalos under surveillance for two days before they were able to arrest him.
"Luis drove in a reckless fashion, fluctuated his speed often, and appeared to be engaging in behavior designed to provoke a road rage situation," according to the Mesa report documenting the surveillance.
Beltran Avalos is being held at the Fourth Avenue Jail on a $1 million cash bond.
According to court documents, he is in the U.S. illegally.
"He is currently in the processes of being deported and is prohibited from possessing a firearm," reads the probable cause statement.
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Also of interest:
8 USC 922 (g). 8 USC 1227 (c) Arizona Revised Statutes ARS 13-3101. 7. (e)
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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Arizona on Driver's Licenses for Immigrants
By Greg Stohr
March 19, 2018, 6:35 AM MST
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/high-court-rejects-arizona-on-driver-s-licenses-for-immigrants
The case is Brewer v. Arizona Dream Acta Coalition, 16-1180.
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