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Glendale police seek 2 in attempted burglary

by on Jan. 27, 2012, under Arizona Republic News

Glendale police are looking for two men after three men reportedly attempted to burglarize a home last week, and the suspect left behind isn’t cooperating much with police, according to court documents.

Police received a call from a neighbor on Saturday evening reporting three men trying to kick in a door at a home across the street. When police arrived at the home, two of the men drove off in a blue car, court documents said.

The officers tried to chase the men but stopped because they were driving too recklessly for the chase to continue, court documents said.

The officers questioned the man left behind, Marcus Batson, who told police they were not trying to burglarize the home but were trying to collect drug money from the resident, who wasn’t home at the time, court documents said.

Batson would only give police street names for his associates and claimed he only knew one of their phone numbers. Police then took the Batson’s phone to turn it off before arresting him when it lit up with a text saying “Hey where u at” from the man he claimed not to know the number for, court documents said.

Batson is on probation for burglary charges and has two pending burglary charges pending in connection with another attempted burglary, court documents said.