Local law enforcement agencies responded quickly and forcefully to a report of two vehicles engaged in a road-related altercation. At approximately 11:40 am on Friday, August 16, 2024, a man called 911 and said that the occupants of a white pickup were trying to pull him over to fight. He said that somebody in the other vehicle may have brandished a gun but he was unsure because the vehicle had tinted windows.
Law enforcement from three agencies conducted a high risk traffic stop on the white truck that allegedly had a weapon and ordered the occupants out at gun point. The driver and passenger obeyed authorities commands and were placed in handcuffs. The man who called authorities was contacted and asked to come to the scene.
The reporting party said that he was traveling east on Highway 70 in Pima when the white truck pulled out in the lane and stopped. He said he swerved into the other lane to avoid the truck and flipped off the driver as he went past. The white truck then apparently pulled up to the side of the reporting party’s vehicle and attempted to get him to pull over. He claimed that the truck pulled in front of him and tried to force him to pull over but he pulled into the other lane and went around. At that point he called 911, saying that he was concerned for the safety of his wife and infant child who were in the vehicle.
An officer asked his wife what she saw and she said that her husband was making it sound worse than it really was. She said that the truck pulled out in front of them, which upset her husband and he drove past and flipped them off. He continued yelling at the other vehicle as it came up beside them, but she denied the part of his story in which he said that they pulled in front and slammed on their brakes.
The occupants of the truck denied having a firearm and allowed authorities to search the vehicle. No firearm was found. The driver of the truck said that he was coming out of Speedway in Pima and was cut off by the driver of a Saturn, who flipped him off as he aggressively drove by. The man said that it made him mad so he tried to get the other driver to pull over so they could fight. He denied threatening the other party with a firearm.
After all the parties in the incident were interviewed, they were released since no firearm was involved and no fighting occurred.
