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Darrell Dewayne Lacy
A 20-year-old Phoenix man wounded in a shootout with Chandler undercover detectives was released from the hospital and booked Monday on suspicion of assault.
Darrell D. Lacy opened fire on the detectives Friday at Southern and 23rd avenues in Phoenix after he stepped off a bus and they closed in to arrest him in a drug investigation, said Detective David Ramer, Chandler police spokesman.
Detectives returned fire, wounding Lacy in the leg.
Ramer said no drug charges have been filed yet.
Lacy, who has an assault conviction stemming from an armed robbery when he was 16, was released from prison Oct. 21 after serving a 3 1/2-year term.
This was the second time this year Chandler undercover detectives got into a shootout in Phoenix.
On Jan. 4, detectives arrested Felipe de Jesus Rodriguez-Pinuelas, 38, after a shootout at 26th Avenue and McDowell Road in which one person was hurt. Pinuelas, sentenced to prison for eight years in August, told a judge he brokered a large marijuana deal because he needed “fast money.”
Pinuelas and a co-defendant loaded an undercover police van with 376 pounds of marijuana.
When detectives in a nearby vehicle activated a kill switch for the bait van, Pinuelas jumped from the vehicle and fired a gun, according to court records.
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