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9 arrested after search warrants served at 'The Zone' near downtown Phoenix​


By Linda Williams and FOX 10 Staff

Published April 25, 2023 11:46AM

Updated 6:52PM

PHOENIX - Police say nine people were taken into custody after officers served drug-related search warrants on April 25 at "The Zone," a large homeless encampment near downtown Phoenix.

Phoenix Police said the raid happened after 7 a.m. near 9th Avenue and Jackson Street and was the culmination of several weeks worth of work in what they're calling a "crime suppression project."

Search warrants were served on three tents in "The Zone," and police say they used undercover operations to focus on certain people.


9 arrested after search warrants served at The Zone near downtown Phoenix​

Police say nine people were taken into custody after officers served drug-related search warrants on April 25 at "The Zone," a large homeless encampment near downtown Phoenix. FOX 10s Linda Williams reports.

"Obviously, we have a lot of issues we're dealing with down here, and so we put together a crime suppression program to try to root out the main offenders down here that are victimizing the individuals out here that are experiencing homelessness," said Lt. David Seitter. "There's been a lot of fentanyl deaths, fentanyl sales. These are the ones that are coming in and victimizing people and they're distributing drugs to the entire community down here. They're pushing guns down here. During this operation, we've taken multiple firearms."

Seitter added that police took all nine people they were seeking into custody, and their goal was to target key individuals and get them off the streets today.
 
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Phoenix's homelessness crisis: a body was found burning in a dumpster in "The Zone" as the community searches for answers. The identity of the victim has not yet been determined, but officials did say it was a male. Phoenix police say they are investigating the death as a homicide.

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Man was alive when set on fire in Phoenix dumpster, suspect tells police​

Larry D. Scott, 22, (left) and Isaiah M. Baskin, 18, were arrested in connection with a body...

Larry D. Scott, 22, (left) and Isaiah M. Baskin, 18, were arrested in connection with a body that was found burned to death near downtown Phoenix earlier this week.(Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)
By Ben Bradley
Published: Mar. 23, 2023 at 12:54 PM MST

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — Two men are in custody in connection with a body that was found burned to death in a dumpster near downtown Phoenix. The suspects have been identified as Larry D. Scott, 22, and Isaiah M. Baskin, 18.
Tuesday morning, police were called to the area of 11th Avenue and Madison Street, known as “The Zone,”
where they found a man’s burned body in a dumpster. Checking area surveillance cameras, detectives saw two men push a grocery cart to the dumpster around 2 a.m. that morning. The video shows the men struggle to lift the cart and dump it into the dumpster. A third person is then seen setting the dumpster on fire.
According to court documents, one of the three men, later identified as Baskin, was wearing unique clothing in the video and was found later that day watching the crime scene from across the street. Police say that’s where Baskin and Scott were arrested.

During an interview with investigators, Baskin reportedly admitted being involved in the crime. Per court documents, he said Scott and the third man beat the victim, then wrapped him in trash bags and put him in the grocery cart. Baskin then reportedly told investigators he helped Scott lift the cart into the dumpster.

According to the report, Baskin said he could still hear the victim moaning before he handed over a lighter that his friend used to set the dumpster on fire. He reportedly told investigators that the third man then gathered firewood to throw into the dumpster. Documents say the three men watched the fire burn for up to 20 minutes and that during that time, Baskin could hear banging noises coming from the dumpster that he believed was the victim.

Scott was previously one of several suspects arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 38-year-old woman outside a McDonald’s restaurant near 19th Avenue and Bell Road in April 2020. Court documents from

Scott’s 2020 arrest say he and the other suspects were “driving around, looking for homeless people to shoot.”

It’s currently unclear what developed in the case since then or why he was released from custody.



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