The SWAT Team invades my Apartment Complex
News story below. This took place on the other side of the complex. I can honestly say it was very freaky when SWAT started setting off the flash bombs and gas bombs. I was afraid to step outside of the house. No one had any details of what was going on. Worse was I had to leave to get Katie to a work function, and to go back out to get her again. I can't imagine what it must have felt like being the people who were in the other apartments around it. Even though it was over at 11pm, I was still on edge, so it took me until 12:30am to finally get to sleep. So I'm on 4 hours sleep right now, just downing a Starbucks so I can function. I guess this just shows, no matter how nice of a neighborhood you might live in, no where is truly immune to the crap of society.
News Article:
After 12-hour standoff with SWAT team, man arrested in South San Jose
By Denis C. Theriault
Mercury News
Posted: 01/11/2009 09:44:28 PM PST
Ending a nearly 12-hour standoff with a man described as potentially armed and dangerous, SWAT team officers arrested a South San Jose man who allegedly held a gun to his girlfriend's head last Monday before eluding police in a brief chase.
Sgt. Mike Sullivan, a police spokesman, said officers following up on the case found the man's car around the corner from his duplex unit in the 5400 block of Drysdale Drive, near Blossom Hill Road and Camden Avenue.
They went to his front door but were unable to coax him outside with loudspeakers, Sullivan said. "Fearing the worst" - that he was armed - police evacuated nearby units and called in the SWAT team Sunday afternoon, Sullivan said.
The girlfriend was not with the man, Sullivan said.
Once the SWAT officers arrived, they began dropping tear gas canisters into the home to flush out the man, Sullivan said. He said that when the man showed himself in the windows, there was "something in his hand," possibly a gun.
Then, just before 11 p.m., police dogs sent into the duplex located the man, and he was arrested without any shots being fired.
Sullivan said he wasn't sure whether the man, identified as Charles Brian Crain, 26, "had any bites."
Eight units had been evacuated by the time of the arrest, with Drysdale and nearby Clovis Avenue shut down to traffic. Residents nearby who hadn't been evacuated were advised to stay inside until the incident was resolved.
The man and his girlfriend had been arguing last week when the man, before fleeing, put a gun to her head and threatened to kill her, Sullivan said. Police called at the time followed the man but gave up their pursuit when his vehicle ran a red light, Sullivan said.
News Article:
After 12-hour standoff with SWAT team, man arrested in South San Jose
By Denis C. Theriault
Mercury News
Posted: 01/11/2009 09:44:28 PM PST
Ending a nearly 12-hour standoff with a man described as potentially armed and dangerous, SWAT team officers arrested a South San Jose man who allegedly held a gun to his girlfriend's head last Monday before eluding police in a brief chase.
Sgt. Mike Sullivan, a police spokesman, said officers following up on the case found the man's car around the corner from his duplex unit in the 5400 block of Drysdale Drive, near Blossom Hill Road and Camden Avenue.
They went to his front door but were unable to coax him outside with loudspeakers, Sullivan said. "Fearing the worst" - that he was armed - police evacuated nearby units and called in the SWAT team Sunday afternoon, Sullivan said.
The girlfriend was not with the man, Sullivan said.
Once the SWAT officers arrived, they began dropping tear gas canisters into the home to flush out the man, Sullivan said. He said that when the man showed himself in the windows, there was "something in his hand," possibly a gun.
Then, just before 11 p.m., police dogs sent into the duplex located the man, and he was arrested without any shots being fired.
Sullivan said he wasn't sure whether the man, identified as Charles Brian Crain, 26, "had any bites."
Eight units had been evacuated by the time of the arrest, with Drysdale and nearby Clovis Avenue shut down to traffic. Residents nearby who hadn't been evacuated were advised to stay inside until the incident was resolved.
The man and his girlfriend had been arguing last week when the man, before fleeing, put a gun to her head and threatened to kill her, Sullivan said. Police called at the time followed the man but gave up their pursuit when his vehicle ran a red light, Sullivan said.