Shelly Mazon was apprehended by K9 Midas in a stolen vehicle investigation
At 10:23 PM on August 30, 2022, an adult male called APD Dispatch to report this his 1994 blue Toyota pickup had been stolen, and that he was following his own stolen truck in another vehicle. The victim gave Dispatch location updates until responding officers could catch up. The victim did relay to police that there was a can of bear spray and a large knife in his Toyota.
Patrol officers and a K9 unit located both vehicles travelling inbound on the Glenn Highway as they were approaching the Hiland overpass. Officers initiated a traffic stop on the stolen Toyota by activating their emergency lights and siren. The suspect driver did not yield and continued driving southbound on the Glenn. The officers used vehicle tactics to get the suspect driver to pull over near the weigh station. Once the officers had the Toyota stopped and blocked in with their patrol vehicles, the officers gave the suspect multiple commands which she refused to comply with.
After giving several Pepper Ball and K9 warnings, officers deployed Pepper Ball into the vehicle through an open window. The suspect did initially open the vehicle door but then she shut it again. K9 Midas was deployed; he entered the vehicle through the open rear window and contacted the suspect in the upper body. The apprehension allowed officers to approach, remove the suspect from the vehicle, and take her into custody.
37-year-old Shelly A. M. Mazon was transported to a hospital for treatment of the dog bite and the Pepper Ball exposure. Afterwards she was driven to the Anchorage Police Department for questioning by detectives. At the conclusion of the interview, Shelly was remanded at Hiland Correctional on the charges of Fail to Stop, Criminal Mischief III, Theft II, and Vehicle Theft I.
Initial indications are that the victim had met a friend in the Eagle River Fred Meyer parking lot. The victim left his Toyota truck in the parking lot while he and his friend went to a nearby gas station in her vehicle. As they were returning to Fred Meyer a short while later, they saw the pickup at the intersection of the Old Glenn Highway and Northgate Drive (the stoplight right outside the Fred Meyer parking lot). The two followed the Toyota while they called APD Dispatch. There is no indication the victim and suspect were known to one another.
Neither Midas nor any of the involved officers were injured in this incident.
APD Case 22-28264
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