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Police Arrest Woman Suspected In Assault After 6-Hour Standoff
The woman was wanted on suspicion of beating her boyfriend with a lead pipe.
UNION CITY, CA — A Union City woman wanted on suspicion of beating her boyfriend with a lead pipe was arrested on Sunday, Oct. 16, the police department said.
Diamond Edwards, 26, is accused of hitting her 28-year-old boyfriend in the head with a lead pipe around 2 a.m. on Sunday in the 34000 block of Alvarado Niles Road. The victim allegedly sustained numerous lacerations and puncture wounds. He was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.
Later Sunday, at approximately 6:34 p.m., police saw Edwards enter her residence and officers surrounded the property and ordered her to surrender. Police allege she refused to leave and barricaded herself inside her home.
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The SWAT team was then responded and a six-hour standoff ensued, with Edwards eventually exiting the residence and submitting to arrest.
Edwards was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and inflicting corporal injury, among other warrants, police said.
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