HE WAS HAVING A STROKE: New bodycam shows K9 biting 62-year-old man for nearly 70 seconds
Casa Grande, Arizona – Bradley Page was behind the wheel of his car on Interstate 10 when he suffered a severe stroke. What happened after law enforcement arrived is on bodycam, and the video had never been made public until Phoenix New Times just got their hands on it.
The incident happened back on Feb 3, 2025. Page, 62, had made an emergency stop along the highway. According to his civil lawsuit, the first officers on scene from the Gila River Police Department understood they could be dealing with a medical emergency. But after Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers arrived, the encounter was treated as a high-risk law-enforcement stop.
The newly public bodycam comes from Pinal County Sheriff’s Office deputies who were called to provide K9 support. It shows Page inside his car as officers repeatedly order him to put his hands out the window. Page does get an arm outside. His lawsuit says the stroke left him struggling to speak, process what was happening and control parts of his body.
Before the K9 arrived, an Arizona DPS trooper had already fired multiple 40-millimeter foam rounds, including rounds that broke the car windows, according to the lawsuit and reporting by Phoenix New Times.
Then Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Gregory Sanders arrived with K9 Morgan, a Belgian Malinois.
The bodycam shows Sanders releasing Morgan toward Page’s car. Morgan bites Page’s left upper arm and remains on him as officers move in, try to pull Page from the driver’s seat, realize he is still wearing his seat belt, cut the belt and force him to the ground.
Phoenix New Times timed the bite at nearly 70 seconds.
After Page was handcuffed, Sanders gave K9 Morgan the command to release his grip. The bodycam shows Sanders praising the K9 as they walk away. Officers searched Page’s car and, according to the reporting, found nothing.
Page’s lawsuit says he then remained handcuffed in a patrol vehicle for more than 69 minutes before being taken to Chandler Regional Hospital. Medical providers confirmed he had suffered a stroke. The lawsuit also says a blood test found no illegal drugs in his system.
The injuries from the K9 bite were serious. The following day, Page was transferred to the Arizona Center for Hand Surgery, where surgeons performed reconstructive surgery to repair deep muscle, tendon and vascular damage caused by four penetrating bite wounds, according to Phoenix New Times.
Page was charged with failure to comply with a police officer and reckless driving. Both charges were dismissed on Jan 28, 2026, according to court records cited by Phoenix New Times.
Page and his wife, Dooreen, are now suing the State of Arizona, Arizona DPS, Pinal County, Sheriff Ross Teeple, Sanders and other law-enforcement personnel. The case was moved to U.S. District Court in Arizona in May and remains a civil lawsuit. The allegations have not been adjudicated.
Pinal County Sheriff’s Office declined to comment to Phoenix New Times because of the pending litigation. Arizona DPS acknowledged the newsroom’s request but had not provided a substantive response when the investigation was published on Sep 18, 2026.
There is another part of this that matters. K9 Morgan did what he was trained and directed to do. The question raised by the bodycam and the lawsuit is about the human decision-making before he was deployed against a man who medical providers later confirmed was having a stroke.
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Sources: Phoenix New Times; U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona / Justia docket; Pinal County Sheriff’s Office; Arizona Department of Public Safety.
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