PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily) — A Peoria Police detective talked a woman down to safety Monday afternoon after she threatened to jump off an overpass while hanging onto a chain-link fence over the Loop 101.
The situation shut down the southbound lanes of the 101 at Grand Avenue for about an hour while Detective Frank Contreras, a trained crisis negotiator, talked the woman down to safety.
“Our primary mission is to preserve life at the end of the day; it doesn’t matter who’s life it is,” Detective Contreras said…