{"id":656074,"date":"2026-03-14T22:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:54:12","slug":"off-duty-phoenix-police-officer-seriously-injured-in-fight-with-alleged-shoplifting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656074\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty Phoenix police officer seriously injured in fight with alleged shoplifting suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; An officer was seriously hurt after a man began to fight with them after allegedly shoplifting in South Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Around 3:47 p.m. on March 13, an officer off-duty approached a man that was shoplifting near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/S+24th+St+%26+E+Baseline+Rd,+Phoenix,+AZ+85042\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b0fee04fc107d:0x4dc4e17764cf41f0?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>24th Street and Baseline Road.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">&#8220;The man would not comply to commands and began to fight with the officer before running from the scene,&#8221; Phoenix Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The man was detained nearby, and taken to a hospital with a non-life-threatening injury. Meanwhile, the officer was also taken to a hospital with a serious but non-life-threatening injury.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Police said that once the man is released from care, he will be booked on charges related to the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The exact charges the suspect faces, along with his identity, are unknown as the investigation remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/S+24th+St+%26+E+Baseline+Rd,+Phoenix,+AZ+85042\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b0fee04fc107d:0x4dc4e17764cf41f0?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map of the incident location.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\/south-phx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; An officer was seriously hurt after a man began to fight with them after allegedly shoplifting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":656075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,9495,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-656074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-south-phx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116229994299069275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}