Six-hour standoff ends with arrest -- and nobody hurt

[uppityperson]

It happens, and I am glad when they are able to, and DO, take the time. Congratulations police! And thank you.

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081112/news/311129989

A six-hour standoff ended peacefully around 4 p.m. Tuesday when a 46-year-old woman was arrested at her residence near the intersection of Orcas and Peabody streets in Port Angeles and booked for investigation of assault.

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"Officers on the scene determined the female subject we later arrested threatened her husband with a large knife," Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith said. "That led to us trying to establish some kind of communication with her to come out of the house."

The woman barricaded herself inside the house by locking doors, closing blinds and "putting up all sorts of barriers to prevent us from getting in," Smith said.
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There were eight Port Angeles police officers, four Clallam County sheriff's deputies and one Sequim police officer at the scene, Smith said. Police followed strict protocol for barricade situations, he said. A state SWAT team and Port Angeles firefighters were on standby...(a bit more @ link)