Crime & Safety

Standoff Ends Peacefully After Tucker Man Arrested

A DeKalb SWAT team persuades a man to surrender after a lengthy standoff.

A standoff ended peacefully early Wednesday morning at a Tucker apartment complex, 11 Alive is reporting.

DeKalb Police and SWAT officers received a domestic disturbance call from the Bentley Place Apartments off Tucker-Norcross Road at about 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the report said.

The SWAT team surrounded a unit at the complex where a man was holed up for several hours. The man, whose identity has not been released, was finally arrested and taken from the apartment in handcuffs around 4 a.m.Β 

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Police said there were no injuries in the incident and that the suspect took no hostages.

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