Police are ‘looking into’ fatal accident

Maricopa Police Spokesman Sgt. Stephen Judd declined on Thursday to immediately provide additional details regarding a fatal accident the department responded to late Tuesday.

“I (sic) Iooking into this. I have very limited information on the case at this time,” Judd wrote in an email response to inmaricopa.com’s request for follow-up on the report posted below:

A motorist at about 10 p.m. Tuesday ran over a victim who was found on the Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway just east of the canal by the feed lot, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office reported on Wednesday.

Part of a car was found in the road, a witness told a deputy. Another witness reported plans to block the road “so no one can run over the body again,” a PCSO report states.

Vanessa White, a spokeswoman for the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, said further details beyond what appeared in the PCSO police blotter were not immediately available.

Judd on Wednesday, however, had provided several details to a competing publication.

A second request to receive, at minimum, the same amount of information provided to others has been made to Judd’s supervisor, Deputy Chief of Police Kirk M. Fitch.

Details will be published as they become available.