On the night of Sept. 9, 2025, a white C8 Corvette went over the Mill Avenue Bridge above Tempe Town Lake fast enough that the car’s own camera recorded triple digits. Tempe police described the footage as showing the car “hitting 140 mph and blowing through red lights.” Arizona’s Family, which aired the clip, read the number as 142. A motorcycle officer tried to pull the driver over. According to police, he ran the red lights and was gone.
The getaway lasted one night. On Sept. 10, officers spotted the same Corvette, and the department says the driver “even tried to run from police” a second time. This time a patrol car fired a Grappler, the nylon net launched from a push bumper that snags a fleeing car’s rear tire and drags it to a stop. Tempe impounded the car and, in the department’s words, “booked the driver on a felony.” Police named him as Mazen Alassmari, and Arizona’s Family reported the booking charge as felony flight.
The Auto Wire covered the arrest when it happened in October 2025 and again in February, when body-camera footage of the stop came out. 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 slogan aimed at the car is the half the public record can confirm. The half aimed at the driver is much harder to find.
What the Maricopa County court index shows
Felony cases in Maricopa County are prosecuted in Superior Court. A search of the court’s public criminal case index on Sept. 30, 2026, for the name Tempe police released, first by full name and then by last name alone, returned “Sorry, no matches to your query” both times. The same index returned pages of results for a common name, so the search itself was working…