PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A driver was taken away in handcuffs after Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers had to use a grappler on an SUV before a standoff Wednesday night.
Aerials from Arizona’s Family News chopper showed a silver SUV’s left rear wheel was successfully caught in the net of a grappler and stopped on the Interstate 17 frontage road at Dixelata Drive.
It was unclear when the incident started, but when our helicopter arrived on the scene about 8:40 p.m., the driver was still in the SUV, with several other SUVs surrounding it.
The grappler’s slack line was connected to a DPS truck. A couple of other DPS SUVs appeared to have deployed their grapplers as well.
Shortly after our helicopter arrived, the driver crawled out of the driver’s side window and fell to the ground, where a K-9 went after him.
He was handcuffed before the medical staff checked him. The driver was loaded into an ambulance and taken to the hospital with unknown injuries.
Arizona’s Family has reached out to DPS for more information and is waiting to hear back.
See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please click here to report it.
Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send it to us here with a brief description.
Copyright 2026 KTVK/KPHO. All rights reserved.