Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
A woman was taken into custody on Tuesday night after barricading herself in an RV at Tempe Marketplace, according to police.
Officers with the Mesa Police Department originally responded to a call at Mesa’s Riverview Park about a possible assault on a park ranger.
A car had left the park and headed west on Rio Salado where it came to a stop in the Tempe Marketplace in the Target parking lot.
When officers tried to contact the person inside, now identified as Laci Ann Clarke, she refused to come out of the RV. Mesa and Tempe police officers were on the scene attempting to make contact with her and resolve the situation for over 40 minutes.
Officers eventually spotted the Clarke leaving the RV and, after a brief struggle, she was taken into custody.
“It appears the suspect may have some mental health issues and those are being addressed,” said Richard Encinas, a spokesperson with Mesa PD.
According to the arrest form, Clarke was contacted at Mesa’s Sloan Park, the spring training home of the Chicago Cubs, for a parking violation but drove away from park rangers. They asked her to stop and she did not comply, hitting a ranger with the steps of her RV.
Clarke has been charged with two counts of endangerment and one count of failure to comply with a police officer.
Lindsay is a Phoenix native and is thrilled to be reporting in her hometown.
After spending several years in advertising after college, she switched gears and graduated with her master’s degree in journalism at Arizona State University in 2019.
When she’s not writing, you can usually find her reading a book or playing with her family’s dogs.
By 
