Stabbing suspect in custody after tear gas used to end standoff in South Lake Tahoe
A man is in custody following a stabbing and standoff Saturday that ended when police used tear gas to flush the suspect out of his South Lake Tahoe home.
The incident began around 11:15 a.m. when officers responded to a home on Lapham Drive after a man at a nearby hospital reported he had been stabbed multiple times, according to a news release from the South Lake Tahoe Police Department.
The resident of the house, a 43-year-old man, was believed to be the suspect in the stabbing, police said.
Officers made contact with the man, who “refused to cooperate and come out of his residence to surrender,” police said.
“Due to violent nature of this incident, SWAT and CNT (crisis negotiators) were called to the scene,” the department said. Officers obtained a search warrant as more personnel from the California Highway Patrol, El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office and South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue descended on the home.
After trying to coax the man from the home for nearly five hours, officers deployed tear gas to force him out.
He was taken into custody around 4:30 p.m. “without further incident,” police said, and was treated at a hospital for injuries. It was unclear the nature of the man’s injuries or how he got them.
The condition of the victim was also unknown.
The suspect was later booked into the Sheriff’s Office’s South Lake Tahoe Jail where he remains on $50,000 bail.
The man is expected to be arraigned as early as Monday. He faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest, jail logs and police indicated.
