# @downinnadesert on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdaerKCgupV
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-18T14:00:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Down In The Desert🌵 (@downinnadesert) — https://gondola.cc/downinnadesert

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A 23-year-old man was arrested after police say he broke into a Tempe church, caused about $10,000 in damage and stole electronics, including a PS5 belonging to the church’s youth group.
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Tempe police say the break-in happened just before 2 a.m. on Aug. 21 at Grace Community Church near Rural Road and Southern Avenue. Surveillance video appears to show the suspect with a shirt wrapped around his head, forcing his way into the student center with a crowbar or tire iron.

Once inside, police say he damaged a computer, instruments, TVs, screens, sound equipment, walls and doors. Investigators say he also damaged a waterline, flooding the kitchen. The damage was estimated at about $10,000, while roughly $2,000 worth of electronics were stolen.

Among the stolen items was a PS5 used by the church’s youth group.

Investigators say security and traffic cameras helped track the suspect’s vehicle after it left the church. Police later identified him as 23-year-old Erick Encinas and arrested him at his Mesa apartment.

Encinas was booked on burglary and aggravated criminal damage charges.

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