Baseball cards a catalyst in Porter Road ambush, cops say - InMaricopa

A Glennwilde man who hunted down and jumped his roommate after his baseball cards went missing was arrested Wednesday morning.

Maricopa Police Department arrested 43-year-old Justin E. Wells on one felony charge of aggravated assault, according to a probable cause statement obtained by InMaricopa.

Cops were dispatched to the intersection of Porter Road and Alan Stevens Parkway on the report of an attack in the roadway at 9:20 a.m.

Officers found a man hunched over and holding his left shoulder, “which looked visibly lower than the right side,” according to the police document.

The man told officers “two males he had been staying with since Monday,” one of whom was Wells, “drove up on him” and attacked him. The police documents made no other mention of a second attacker.

Maricopa Fire and Medical Department crews were dispatched and told police they believed the man’s shoulder was separated. He was transported to an area hospital.

At his home on West Somerset Drive, Wells told cops the victim had been living at his house since Oct. 27 and that Wells noticed some of his baseball cards had gone missing.

Wells said he hunted down the man and found him on Porter Road, where he got out of his car and jumped him. Police arrested him at 9:50 a.m.

Wells was booked into the Pinal County jail. He faces five years in prison.