SEDONA, AZ Dec 22 2020 A Sedona police officer fired his service weapon during a struggle with a man he was trying to arrest Sunday, according to Sedona police. It happened around 10:30 a.m. at the Sedona Airport.

Sedona Police Department Chief Charles Husted says officers were called by airport officials who said three people, two men and a woman, had taken an airport pickup truck and were driving it around on airport property.

Sedona Police Department Chief Charles Husted says one of their officers fired his weapon during a struggle with a suspect at the Sedona Airport Sunday.

By the time officers arrived, the three suspects had left the pickup truck and had walked back through the airport terminal and had gone out to the front parking lot.

Husted says when the officers found the three near the vehicle they had driven to the airport, they tried to question them. The three refused to identify themselves and were not cooperative with the officers, police said. That’s when one of the men took off running back into the airport terminal. One of the officers chased him.

Three people were arrested after an incident at the Sedona Airport Sunday where an officer had to fire his weapon during a struggle with a suspect.

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