A 32-year-old man accused of attacking his roommate with a box cutter surrendered to deputies shortly after 8 p.m. after refusing for hours to come out of his Poway home
A man accused of attacking his roommate in Poway was arrested Saturday following a nearly seven-hour standoff with a county sheriff’s SWAT team, officials said.
The victim called 911 about 1:30 p.m. and said his roommate attacked him with a box cutter at a home on York Avenue near Scots Way, Lt. Gavin Lanning said. Lanning said the victim suffered abrasions during the altercation with his 32-year-old roommate. Arriving deputies contacted the suspect to ask him to come out of the houseand surrender peacefully, but he refused, the lieutenant said.
A sheriff’s SWAT team, crisis negotiators and K-9s, assisted by a crew in a helicopter, responded to the incident. The man was arrested withoutincident just after 8 p.m. on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and violating conditions of his probation, Lanning said.
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