Person matching burglary suspect seen near Caterpillar building, Tucson AZ


Police observed a person matching the description of a burglary suspect near the southeast end of the Caterpillar building in a back dirt lot. The individual wore a green shirt, dark pants, and headphones and appeared unaware of officers nearby. Officers awaited additional units before making contact to possibly detain the suspect.
Audio|Source: Tucson Police West Division
02:33
Transcript:
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2026. 209. 2m36 and 3M12 and are you going to be checking the construction site one more time?
00:08
Tell 27.
00:14
26. 2-7-16.
00:16
2-7-16.
00:19
We located someone's match in the description of the suspect.
00:24
We are on the south end,
00:26
southeast end of the Caterpillar building over in the back dirt lot.
00:31
He doesn't know we're here, so we'll wait for a couple more units.
00:35
He is in the Panicruz, the walkway for the wash.
00:43
B6 on your way.
00:49
D114. We're going to cancel this construction site and head that way instead.
00:58
3.
01:04
136 to 2. Tom 16, 2, Tom, 16.
01:05
Can you put out the description if you see you see how closely matches?
01:14
The description matches.
01:16
The only thing he doesn't have is red bandana on, but he's got the headphones, a green shirt, dark pants, kind of heavy sets.
01:28
We've got a couple units in your eyes too.
01:34
And I don't know if there's another way to get down, but if he does take off running south of, we can get another unit just to go a little bit south of somewhere we are, so we can cut them off.
01:50
I think there should be access to that large dirt lot off of mission, Yusa Grande.
01:57
It's out of 1-6, so we might be able to get somebody to head them off.
02:02
Got one, Joe.
02:03
I'm heading southland airlock.
02:06
3-6104, around (number withheld) West Mission Road.
02:08
There's a little dirt road that leads down to the bike path.
02:15
It's a positive idea he's wearing the same pants and shoes and shirt that he was wearing the same headphones.
02:23
We're making our way down to try and make contact with him.
02:25
If he takes off running, it's going to be south zone.
02:31
To Lincoln, I just put the drone up.
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New Services, E 6th St, Tucson, AZ 85719
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