Hourslong NLV barricade incident ends in ‘peaceful resolution,’ police say

By Wesley Juhl Las Vegas Review-Journal

10 years ago

A North Las Vegas police officer positions himself on the roof of a house at the 2600 block of St. George Street, near Carey Avenue and Civic Center where a man was making threats and locked himself inside a home, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @bizutesfaye

North Las Vegas police are seen at the 2600 block of St. George Street, near Carey Avenue and Civic Center where a man was making threats and locked himself inside a home, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @bizutesfaye

Member of a SWAT team positions himself on the roof of a house at at the 2600 block of St. George Street, near Carey Avenue and Civic Center where a man was making threats and locked himself inside a home, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @bizutesfaye

North Las Vegas police work near Civic Center Drive and Carey Avenue, where homes are being evacuated after reports of a man making threats on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal

Residents in a North Las Vegas neighborhood are being allowed back into their homes after a five-hour barricade that started Wednesday morning, police said.

Officers were called just after 10:30 a.m. to a house in the 2600 block of St. George Street, near Civic Center Drive and Carey Avenue, where a man was making threats and locked himself inside.

North Las Vegas police evacuated homes in the neighborhood while SWAT officers tried to coax the man out of the house.

The barricade had a “peaceful resolution” and the man was taken into police custody about 3:45 p.m., officer Aaron Patty said. Patty could not say what charges the man could face.

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