Robbers kidnapped two jewelers Wednesday after pulling them over with a car equipped with police emergency lights in Tempe. The two victims were heading back home to Sun Lakes after attending a jewelry expo.

The man and his sister were bound with tape, handcuffed, then dropped off at a mall in Tempe. Police located their van in Avondale thanks to the LoJack system the man had installed.

Police went to the home they tracked and found eight people, along with things the two thieves stole in the kidnapping and the van. Five of the eight men were thrown into a Maricopa County jail and charged with kidnapping, strong armed robbery, aggravated assault, vehicle theft, trafficking in stolen property and impersonating a police officer.

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The eighth suspect  in the July shooting death of Chandler undercover detective Carlos Ledesma has been arrested by U.S. Marshals in Chicago. Ledesma was gunned down in Phoenix during a botched undercover drug deal on July 28. Two other officers were shot, and two suspects were killed in the firefight that was started over the drug dealers trying to screw them out of $250,000 worth of weed.

Marshals apprehended 39 year old Anthony Wright in the parking lot of a Chicago Walgreens without struggle after tailing him from a home. He had been previously tied to three locations, including as far away as the Virgin Islands. He faces charges related to the murder, as well as the foiled drug deal.

Two of the suspects, Darnell Jackson and Eldridge Gittens, were recommended as suitable for the death penalty last month in Maricopa County court. The Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley has requested a 60 day continuance of the court hearings to complete lab work that could further incriminate other suspects. The Capital Review Commitee will also decide whether they should pursue the death penalty against Jerry Cockhearn, a third suspect charged in the case.

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