The Brief
- Police say Micheal Soto, 19, hijacked a woman’s location app at gunpoint to hunt down her boyfriend, leading to a violent rifle attack on a West Phoenix street.
- Detectives tracked down alleged getaway driver Gladis Ayala, 19, who identified Soto after claiming he forced her to drive him and threatened her life.
- Soto remains jailed on a $50,000 bond following his Aug. 26 arrest, while Ayala was arrested in July and faces a December trial.
PHOENIX – A 19-year-old Phoenix man is behind bars after allegedly using shared phone location data to track down his date’s boyfriend before pistol-whipping a victim and spraying a West Phoenix street with rifle fire.
What we know:
Micheal Anthony Soto was taken into custody by Phoenix Police Department Crime Gun Intelligence Unit detectives following a months-long investigation into the June 7 violent ambush. Soto now faces multiple felony charges, including aggravated assault, kidnapping and discharging a firearm at a non-residence, with a Maricopa County judge setting his bond at $50,000 on Thursday.…