forestry and lab i need you for free and love okay i've got unit started thank you hurry up uh-huh okay my name is sergeant sosa i'm with the superior police on february 5th uh in the morning like about 8 30 or so i was trying to make an arrest for a wanted felon it was a brief foot pursuit and then once he realized that i was actually going to catch him he turned around just uh was just going to be a fight three go ahead superior three go ahead with your traffic stop superior three code 20. from the pursuit my my mic actually flew off my vest so i wasn't able to to talk with uh with a radio dispatch at all you know total traffic till we get a quote four from superior three checking out on a traffic stop unknown location unknown vehicle descriptions negative contact with superior three and we have a unit 10 19 to superior unknown location calling out traffic unknown vehicle descriptions negative contacts they're not able to reach us to our radio then from there they can they'll give us a call negative contact so far was barrier three the only way i was able to communicate was through my uh through my watch when i was struggling with the with the subject on the floor um i was able to hear my phone ringing but i couldn't grab it and i can hear the radio calling i wasn't able to to to reach it so i was able to communicate with dispatch to my apple watch dispatch was calling me and i was able to hit the talk button and then that's why i was able to continue fighting with the subject and then uh while talking to dispatch we i've got some help superior three on the 21 advising needs additional units for free in love for free in love but somehow he was able to get his fingers into his pocket and slide out the pocket knife hey go ahead and start ambulance from here he did uh snapped me in the lake initially i didn't feel i really didn't feel anything i just felt like the pressure i knew i knew what it was but you know just i really didn't feel the pain just you know pretty much the pressure the pair of three-eyed coffee got stabbed on the legs nine to five is 10 19 we've got several units around so far the dispatcher to save my life because you know i was able to uh continue fighting she sent the only the resources that i needed out there seriously for you okay [Music] so now we're gonna have gloria wheeler who is our dispatcher who's on duty that night come down and we're gonna give her an award hello hey gloria hi i'd like to introduce you to somebody real quick oh my goodness well this is sergeant sosa from superior pd you probably recognize his voice yes thank you very much wow so if you want to come slide over here real quick i'd like to read this to you on behalf of the pinal county sheriff's office and the superior police department thank you for your exceptional performance of your duties as a pinal county sheriff's office public safety communications dispatcher and thank you for your actions on the day of february 5th your dedication to everybody is much appreciated here's your award thank you and the cool part you get the key nice i love it thank you you're welcome congratulations thank you one of our best dispatchers don't tell all the other spectres but she's great she also works as a part of our posse volunteers so we appreciate her thank you it doesn't surprise me that you did an amazing job well thank you thank you i'm frank connie's chief of police i just want to say thank you so much thank you so i'll make this quick but on that morning i was on us-60 coming into work it's like any other morning i remember i turned on the radio because i'm lazy sometimes i don't turn on until i'm halfway through i felt so helpless i really did listen to this but you really did an amazing job i mean i knew what was going on i knew my officer was okay or going to be okay it's all because of you you know it's always fun thank you so much for coming to heart thank you thank you i can't thank you enough again i was talking about earlier i know it was a hectic situation and um but when you were there and i don't remember most of the conversation until i listened to recording stuff but i'm like listening to you talking like well she really was calm you know she got she got the right sources there just in time so i appreciate it thank you very much i'm glad you're safe and you're fine it's all it matters at the end of the day you know that i get you guys home safe and i'm glad that we had pinal county in the area i've always appreciated dispatches but yeah even more so after this [Music] incident