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Devontae Sanford Arrested in Arizona After Allegedly Firing Wildly into Park

March 21, 2018, 9:19 PM

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Devontae Sanford

Devontae Sanford has had his share of bad turns. Here's another.

Sanford, 25, who was wrongfully convicted as a teen in four Detroit killings and imprisoned for years before being released,  was arrested in Arizona on Monday for allegedly firing wildly into a suburban Phoenix park, sending children running, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Sanford is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment and given $25,000 bail. He faces a March 30 preliminary exam. 

Sanford was imprisoned in 2008 after being wrongfully convicted of a quadruple homicide when he was 15. He served eight years before his release in 2016.

In the Arizona case, Maricopa County deputies responded to a complaint Monday about a marijuana odor coming from an address in Waddell, Ariz., northwest of Phoenix, in a subdivision mostly surrounded by desert, Omar Abdel-Baqui of the Freep reports, adding:

Officers reported seeing Sanford and and two other men riding into the desert with a large duffel bag, and then returning with the bag empty. The men were allegedly shooting high-caliber rounds toward the subdivision, and shots were ricocheting in a park around children and young adults, "and people were running for their lives," according to the report.

Police searched the residence where Sanford was staying later Monday and found two AR-15 pistol rifles in addition to ammunition boxes and drum magazines, the report says


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


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