Man arrested after standoff with police in Las Vegas high-rise
A man has been arrested after a standoff with Las Vegas police officers at a high-rise apartment.
Errol Gaines, 28, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Monday after barricading himself in an apartment earlier in the day.
Just after 11:10 a.m., the Metropolitan Police Department was notified of a man, possibly armed, arguing with a woman on the 200 block of Karen Avenue, near Paradise Road and Sahara Avenue.
The pair were seen entering a residence shortly before officers arrived. The woman exited the unit uninjured at 1:25 p.m., but the man remained inside, police said.
“We believed at first that we may have had a hostage situation,” Metro spokesman Larry Hadfield said. “However, it then was downgraded into a barricaded person situation when we did get that female into our custody.”
Police had initially received information that a gunshot was heard, but it was not clear if that happened, Hadfield said.
Gaines faces charges of assault with the use of a deadly weapon, kidnapping with the use of a deadly weapon and domestic battery with the use of a deadly weapon, according to booking records.
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