Crime & Safety
Charlotte’s SWAT Responds To Suspect Barricaded In ‘Domestic Situation’: CMPD
A suspect with a gun barricaded themselves from police and SWAT officers on Potenza Drive in North Charlotte Wednesday morning.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A “domestic situation” turned into a SWAT standoff in the early morning hours Wednesday when a suspect with a gun barricaded himself in a home in north Charlotte, according to police.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police received a call around 2:30 a.m. that Corey Lamont Seburn, 40, was potentially armed with a gun and would not let his girlfriend and their children leave the home in the 700 block of Potenza Drive in north Charlotte.
Neighbors were relocated during the police standoff, which ended around 9 a.m. when Seburn surrendered and was taken into custody, CMPD said. (Get Patch real-time email alerts for the latest news in Charlotte — or other neighborhoods. And iPhone users: Check out Patch's new app.)
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Seburn has been taken to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office and is awaiting charges.
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