SAN SIMON, AZ (AZFamily) — A man suspected of carjacking a pickup truck near the New Mexico border was arrested in Arizona on Friday afternoon. Police say the stolen SUV he may be tied to belongs to a man who was found severely beaten in Tempe.
It began shortly after 12:30 p.m., when New Mexico State Police responded to a report of a man forcing his way into a pickup truck just east of the New Mexico-Arizona border and threatening to kill the driver and passengers
When officers arrived, the pickup, which was hauling a camper, was gone. They found an abandoned black GMC Yukon parked facing the wrong direction on the westbound off-ramp. According to NMSP, the Yukon had been stolen out of Tempe…