![]() ![]() The departments used most of that money to pay for officer overtime associated with the efforts. This year, Scottsdale police got $110,000, and Tucson police received $30,000, according to officials and statements from each agency. Highway safety office documents show Phoenix police received grants for more than $200,000 to combat street racing from January 2020 to January 2021. Over the past year, Director Alberto Gutier said, his office has given enforcement agencies hundreds of thousands of dollars to disrupt street racing activity and enforce state laws. ![]() That’s when the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety realized the problem was statewide. Earlier this month, Andrew David Friedlander, 34, was charged with manslaughter after a suspected street racing incident which ended when his vehicle crashed into a Jeep driven by Charissa Coleman, 28, who was killed. And in January 2021, Alejandro Bautista, 20, was racing another vehicle in Phoenix before he hit a pedestrian, Cesar Santos, 31, who died from the impact. In November, Nicholas Meath, 21, raced against Cameron Groom, now 28, before his car collided with a pillar at a resort in Scottsdale. ![]() In February 2020, Felix Cardoza, 18, died when he struck a concrete retaining wall on State Route 51. Chagolla was not charged with any crime.įisher is among at least five people in the Phoenix area killed in street racing accidents since 2019, according to analysis of law enforcement documents from Valley agencies. She left behind two sons and a granddaughter.Ĭarrasco, now 24, and Foster, now 61, face murder and other felony charges in the crash, but despite witness statements and Chagolla’s confirmation to police, neither driver faces charges for street racing. After Fisher missed three consecutive shifts at the salon and medspa, Stenzel went to her house and learned the news from Fisher’s neighbors. For days, Stenzel didn’t know her friend had been killed. ![]()
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