Mesa Police officers after 1 a.m. July 11 responded to the Colonade Motel, 5440 E. Main St., on the report of a person threatening with a knife. When officers arrived, they found and detained 29-year-old Corey Tyner, police said.
While looking for victims inside the motel room, officers observed several boxes of ammunition, a firearm with a drum magazine — found to be illegally converted into a fully automatic weapon — and drug paraphernalia within reach of the suspect’s three children, police said.
One juvenile witness told officers that Tyner entered their motel room and hid a firearm and a bag of “blue pills” under the kitchen sink. These items were removed by officers and Tyner admitted to putting them there, saying that this motel room was his friend’s and that he entered after not receiving an answer when he knocked, police said.
