Man arrested after hours-long standoff at Old North Sacramento apartment building
Sacramento police detained an unidentified man around 5 p.m. Saturday after an hours-long standoff at an Old North Sacramento apartment building.
The Sacramento Police Department was dispatched to the building in the 700 block of Plaza Avenue shortly after 12:30 p.m. regarding a felony assault with a knife, according to police spokesman Sgt. Eddie Macauley.
No one was injured when the police arrived, Macauley said. But the man barricaded himself in an apartment and refused to come out.
The unidentified man claimed to be armed, according to a person at the scene who was not authorized to speak. The police were called after he was seen setting fires and threatened to blow up the building after a confrontation with the landlord, the source said.
The apartment complex was evacuated and a section of Plaza Avenue was closed off near Rio Linda Boulevard.
A SWAT team was also called to the scene along with crisis negotiators. The unidentified man was wanted on multiple felony warrants, Macauley said.
Saturday’s stand-off followed a series of incidents starting Friday night, Macauley said. No one was injured in any of them.
This story was originally published August 3, 2019 at 4:06 PM.