At 12:48 pm, on Friday December 22nd, our deputies responded to a DV with a weapon call in South Hill on 118th Ave E. Deputies arrived on scene and spoke to the victim who said their mother’s boyfriend shot at them during an argument.
Deputies immediately surrounded the home and began making announcements for the suspect to exit the home.
After negotiating for several minutes they decided to call for the Pierce County SWAT Team to assist.
SWAT arrived and immediately starting making announcements to let the suspect know we were still there.
When we have a barricaded suspect armed with a gun, we can’t just walk freely around the house, which is why we have an armored vehicle. In addition we have this armored Bobcat which was donated to the Sheriff’s Department for situations like this where we need to open a fence, or break out windows without exposing our deputies to danger.
The SWAT Team used gas and eventually the suspect called in and advised us he was coming out from the crawlspace under the house. SWAT was able to take the suspect into custody with no problems and he was later booked into the jail for 3 counts of Assault in the 1st Degree.
With the extra tools, training and tactics the SWAT Team is able to make sure we have more outcomes with a suspect surrendering.
The post SWAT Team Responds to DV with a Weapon first appeared on Pierce County Sheriff’s Department Blotter.
Well done deputies….Well Done !
Glad you have the tools you need….saves lives…for everyone concerned. Even the suspected criminal.
What was the purpose of this posting? It’s out of the ordinary for subtimes, and even moreso for LPD/TPD, and especially SWAT.
Nice job for taking the subject in without a death, but let’s talk tax here…This the first and only blog post I’ve ever seen here like this. There are many other LPD actions I and many others wished had been so publicly reported—so why why THIS, and why now?
I don’t wish to diminish the work of the officers involved: they got the perp without killing him. This absolutely deserves recognition for them, they did good.
But why post this? That’s the question. Why not be so open to the public when LPD has cost our city residents millions in wrongful death judgements? Has the subtimes become an outlet for the good outcomes, without acknowledging the bad ones—where our cops have made “mistakes” that even a layperson could see were wrong in the moment…like all those times where an innocent civilian was shot for obviously holding only a cell phone?
Police officers have a difficult job, one that I generally respect. My comment should not be interpreted an an insult to our police officers—the state has legally tied one hand behind their own backs.
But what in the hell is this posting supposed to say or mean?? It’s nothing but a random post about something that few ever even knew hapoened, meanwhile nothing ever gets mentioned about the active criminal and police actions that the citizens see regularly—and want to know about.
If the powers that be in our broken city can tell us some random thing, they should be able to tell us about everything…or at least give us some way to find out the reason when three or more police cars are dispatched to a location within our neighborhood.
This seems like an obvious cry for a “pat on the back,” when all we want is to KNOW what’s going wrong in our city. My fellow citizens deserve more, not some cherry-picked reporting that only cheers the victories.
This “story” proves only that our city tells us next to nothing, and when it does, it’s worthy of a blog posting. I’d hoped this would get better after Anderson was replaced. Guess it’s a more systemic problem…
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Good news is nice to see for a change. Thank you Ben, for including these informative items. It’s nice to see and read about the good jobs people do.
Thanks for your service!
The gun made him do it.
Ban the gun and release the suspect, because there is no other way to commit an act of violence.
It’s our rights and freedoms that are the problem.
Oh wait, ban matches and lighters as well because Pierce County has an arson problem.
Would someone like to tell me what “DV” means please?
Good news is nice to see for a change. Thank you Ben, for including these informative items. It’s nice to see and read about the good jobs people do.