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Garland’s Lodge Burglar Arrested After Police Chase

Flagstaff AZ (October 23, 2012) – Thirty-year-old Ryan Travis Twyman of Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested at 1:02 p.m. this afternoon after two brief vehicle pursuits and an extended foot chase beginning at De Miguel School and ending south of the Mt. Dell subdivision in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Twyman was driving a vehicle stolen from the Sedona area Garland’s Lodge and was found in possession of several firearms taken in the lodge burglaries.

The incident resulted in the total lock down of Flagstaff’s De Miguel School which was in session at the time.

At about 7:30 a.m., a Coconino County Sheriff’s deputy responded to a report of several burglaries at Garland’s Lodge located at the base of Oak Creek Canyon along SR Hwy 89A, Sedona.

Upon his arrival, the Coconino County deputy spoke with the owner of the lodge and several staff members who live in the employee housing regarding multiple crimes. The deputy learned that an unknown suspect or suspects burglarized multiple residences in the employee housing unit, and burglarized multiple vehicles belonging to both employees and lodge guests.

Firearms, jewelry, a large quantity of cash, and electronic devices were taken during the commission of these crimes. Also missing from the lodge lot was a 2005 white Subaru Outback that the Coconino County deputy believed may have been stolen by the same suspect or suspects who committed the burglaries. Issuing an alert for the vehicle during the investigation, the deputy received information that the stolen vehicle might be in the University Heights subdivision located within the city limits of Flagstaff.

Local law enforcement agencies that included the Flagstaff Police Department, Arizona Game and Fish, and the Arizona Department of Public Safety assisted Coconino County deputies in searching the neighborhood for the stolen vehicle. Initial efforts to locate the vehicle were unsuccessful.

The Coconino County deputy began checking business parking lots located on Woodlands Boulevard and spotted the white Subaru vehicle. In an attempt to elude the deputy, the burglary suspect drove through the Wal-Mart parking lot at a high rate of speed. The deputy lost sight of the speeding Subaru as it traveled west on University Drive.

The deputy requested assistance and, with the assistance of the above listed law enforcement agencies, road blocks were established at both ingress and egress to the University Heights subdivision neighborhood.

Due to the belief that the suspect was in possession of several firearms taken during the burglaries, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office requested that De Miguel School be totally locked down. Fearing for the safety of the school children, officers and deputies established a perimeter around the school.

As multiple officers and deputies searched for the white Subaru, a Coconino County Sheriff’s Office detective sergeant spotted the vehicle backed in at the end of a cul-de-sac. The suspect attempted to elude the sergeant by driving at a high rate of speed out of the cul-de-sac. The sergeant pursued him to the parking lot of De Miguel School where a joint agency command post had been established.

Once the vehicle came to a stop at the school, the suspect fled on foot into a wooded area towards the Mt. Dell subdivision. Several officers and deputies gave chase and were assisted by a concerned citizen. During this extensive foot chase, at the south edge of the Mt. Dell subdivision in the area of Purple Sage, the citizen saw the suspect hiding in a grassy meadow and alerted deputies.

As deputies searched the meadow, a Coconino County Sheriff’s detective found the suspect hiding in the tall grass and he was quickly taken into custody without further incident.

Investigators recovered numerous items including a large amount of cash, jewelry and firearms taken during the Oak Creek Canyon lodge burglaries.

Ryan Travis Twyman will be incarcerated at the Coconino County Detention Facility.

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