A white C8 Corvette crossed the Mill Avenue Bridge over Tempe Town Lake in Tempe, Arizona, on the night of Sept. 9, 2025, fast enough that the car’s own camera recorded it in triple digits. Tempe police said the video showed the car “hitting 140 mph and blowing through red lights”; Arizona’s Family, which aired the footage, put the reading at 142. A motorcycle officer tried to pull the Corvette over that night. Police say the driver ran red lights and got away.
He got one more night. On Sept. 10, officers spotted the same Corvette and, according to the department, the driver “even tried to run from police” again. This time a patrol car fired a Grappler, a nylon net launched from the push bumper that wraps a fleeing car’s rear tire and drags it to a stop. Tempe police impounded the car and, in the department’s words, “booked the driver on a felony.” Police identified him as Mazen Alassmari, and Arizona’s Family reported the booking charge as felony flight.
Tempe turned the arrest into a public message. Its October 2025 post of the video closed with “We hear you. We act.” and a promise of “zero tolerance for reckless driving” under the city’s Vision Zero traffic-safety program. A year later, the half of that message aimed at the car is the half the public record can confirm. The half aimed at the driver is much harder to find.
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What Maricopa County’s felony docket shows
Felony cases in Maricopa County are prosecuted in Superior Court. On Sept. 30, 2026, I searched the court’s public criminal case index for the name Tempe police released, first by full name and then by last name alone. Both searches came back “Sorry, no matches to your query.” The same search for a common name returned pages of cases, so the index was working…