SWAT Team Responds To Domestic Dispute In Mountain View: Police

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA -- A man and woman were arrested Sunday morning in Mountain View after they allegedly refused for more than five hours to come out of a home following an alleged domestic dispute, prompting police to send a SWAT team and crisis negotiators to the scene for the safety of those involved and the residents of surrounding homes, police said.

The incident at a home in the 700 block of Hope Street began at about 4 a.m. Sunday because someone called to say there was a fight at the residence. When police arrived they allegedly could hear the two screaming inside the home. Police allege that the pair would not come out or talk to them.

This prompted police to close Hope Street between Church Street and Yosemite Avenue. Neighbors were asked to shelter in place.

For the next several hours, the crisis negotiation and SWAT teams worked to speak with the duo inside the home and to get them to come out of the house.

At 9:30 a.m. the two agreed to come out peacefully, allowing police to lift the shelter-in-place orders.

One of the people arrested was identified as 40-year-old Samuel Rowles and the other was identified as 33-year-old Elideth Rodriguez.

Rodriguez was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs and resisting officers. Rowles was arrested on suspicion of resisting officers.

By 11 a.m., officers had cleared the scene and Hope Street was reopened, police said.

Bay City News Service contributed to this report.

Photo via Mountain View Police Department