Barricade in Oakton Area Ends in Peaceful Surrender: Police

PHOTO: Douglas Evans, photo courtesy of FCPD

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OAKTON, VA -- A barricade situation in the Oakton area Monday has ended peacefully, according to Fairfax County Police.

Police were called to an apartment Monday morning at about 9:24 a.m. in the 10300 block of Appalachian Circle (see map below) in Oakton, for a report of a trespassing, police said.

The complainant informed responding officers that her estranged husband was refusing to leave her apartment after they had an argument, police said. Officers made contact with the man through the locked door of the lower level apartment. They said he refused to heed to the officer’s request to come out.

After negotiating with the man for more than two hours, the man made statements saying that he would damage the property unless officers left, according to police. Officers said they then detected smoke and an odor of something burning emanating from the apartment. Further resources were summoned to the scene and out of an abundance of caution, the residents in the surrounding apartments were evacuated.

At about 4:43 p.m. Monday, the man surrendered to Special Operations Division Officers without incident and was taken into custody, police said.

Douglas Evans, 39, of Oakton, was charged with Malicious Burning, Threats to Burn, Unlawful Entry and Violation of a Protective Order. Evans did not incur any physical injuries during the arrest and he was evaluated by Fairfax County Sheriff’s Deputies trained in Crisis Intervention at the Adult Detention Center.