A Mesa bait car enticed another thief Friday, court records show.

Phoenix police officers brought a puppy to the Arizona Animal Welfare League & Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (AAWL & SPCA) over the weekend that had been left in a car with the windows rolled up in a parking lot in central Phoenix.

 A woman who Mesa police said would jump into strangers’ cars, ransack their belongings and threaten to tell police false stories of sexual assaults was arrested Wednesday afternoon.

Crime suspects fleeing from police ran into an unmarked police car Thursday before hitting a pole and narrowly missing a residence.

A man was treated at Scottsdale Healthcare Shea hospital for a minor arm injury late Sunday after his car struck the back of a Scottsdale police cruiser.

A Mesa police officer on an emergency call was involved in a crash Saturday at University and Stapley drives.

LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears' car was impounded after police found it abandoned on the street. Police said Spears was driving Monday night when she had a flat tire on Sunset Boulevard sometime before 8 p.m.

MINNEAPOLIS - Divers searched the Mississippi River on Thursday for more bodies entombed in cars trapped beneath the twisted steel and concrete slabs of a collapsed bridge. As many as 30 people were missing as the effort shifted from rescue to recovery.

Scottsdale police want the technology to take pictures of up to 1,000 license plates an hour in an effort to be immediately alerted to cars that are stolen or identified in Amber Alerts or terrorism investigations.

Andre Brice called his wife early Wednesday and told her to pray. His family’s car had just been struck by a Gilbert police cruiser, and his 15-year-old daughter, Lauren, was pinned against a power pole.

Andre Brice called his wife early Wednesday and told her to pray. His family’s car had just been struck by a Gilbert police cruiser, and his 15-year-old daughter, Lauren, was pinned against a power pole.

Two Valley police cars were stolen Tuesday, and one still missing carries a cache of weapons and gear used by Phoenix SWAT teams.

A Scottsdale police officer whose patrol car skidded into a suspect he was chasing will be investigated by the department’s accident review board, police said.

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Gilbert police found three men in the trunk of a car Monday after making a traffic stop.

Police are investigating after several vehicles were set on fire at apartment complexes in Mesa early Wednesday.

Police say a woman has died after locking herself in a car in Phoenix and refusing to come out.

Chandler and Mesa police are investigating multiple car fires that were set across the cities early Thursday.

A Tempe police officer died in a car crash Thursday when a driver failed to yield to his oncoming motorcycle.

A Tempe police officer died in a car crash Thursday when a driver failed to yield to his oncoming motorcycle.

Police are searching for a man who car-jacked a woman and drove off with her car and purse near Mesa's Banner Desert Medical Center on Thursday afternoon.