Denver SWAT Arrest: Standoff Suspect Called In Fake Carjacking

DENVER, CO -- Denver police said a man fleeing police broke into a random home and held cops at a hours-long standoff Tuesday night. SWAT teams and K9 officers swarmed through the neighborhood near 2600 North Federal Boulevard until Nehemiah James Garcia, 34, gave himself up around 10 p.m.

Police said Garcia was being sought for six outstanding warrants from neighboring towns when he was spotted by fugitive unit officers around 4:20 p.m. at a supermarket in the 2600 block of North Federal. Officers tried to take him into custody, but he ran away, an arrest affidavit said.

Garcia ran through alleys and streets and then officers saw him force open the back door of a home in the 2900 block of West 26th Avenue, the report said.

Police surrounded the house and tried to call Garcia out for hours, while neighbors watched.

While hiding in the house, emergency dispatchers at 911 got a call from Garcia's phone number reporting a "false car-jacking at W 20th and Federal" police said.

DPD obtained a warrant, and SWAT and K9 officers entered the building around 10 p.m. Garcia was taken into custody.

Garcia is being held without bond in the Denver County Jail facing charges of second-degree burglary, assault and failure to appear on several warrants from Wheat Ridge, Lakewood and Adams and Jefferson counties.

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