Tempe house catches fire hours after standoff leads to 4 arrests

TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Investigators are trying to figure out whether a standoff that led to four arrests sparked a house fire hours later in Tempe early Tuesday morning.

Mesa police said officers were looking for Michael Devin Dietz Ruiz, 29, on multiple felony warrants and after he took off from police around 6 p.m. Monday, confirmed he was in a house on La Donna Drive, near McClintock Drive and Guadalupe Road.

Detectives said Judd Harper, 40, wanted on a probation violation, was also inside the home.

SWAT arrived, and several people came out of the house and told officers that Harper and Dietz Ruiz weren’t coming out…

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