Citrus Heights police said an arrest was made Thursday night in a domestic violence incident involving a possibly armed man who “barricaded” himself in his home and caused a 15-hour standoff with police.
58-year-old David Wilt was arrested around 10 p.m. Thursday, after a Citrus Heights SWAT team entered the home and found him hiding in a bathroom, Officer Wesley Herman said in a news release. Police said Wilt was to be treated at a hospital for “minor injuries” before being booked in the Sacramento County jail for felony domestic battery, resisting arrest and a firearms charge.
Officers had initially responded to the 6300 block of Trenton Way, near Auburn Boulevard, around 6:40 a.m. for a reported domestic violence incident involving a man and a woman, according to police. Responding officers were able to “safely remove” the woman involved, but were unable to get the man to exit the home.
“Based on the nature of the crime and the report of a firearm,” police said a SWAT team and Crisis Negotiation Team were deployed, parking the Department’s Mine Resistant Armor Protected vehicle next to the home.
Throughout the afternoon, neighbors looked on from a distance as SWAT officers with rifles drawn could be seen outside the Trenton Way home. Police said tear gas and a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department specialized robot were utilized in an attempt to “conclude the standoff peacefully.”
[Prior story: Citrus Heights SWAT surround home; man inside possibly armed]
Although the standoff happened on the same block as Arlington Heights Elementary School, the school district said police had determined a lock-down was not necessary, according to a statement on the San Juan Unified School District’s Twitter account.
According to the Sacramento Bee, a family member said the Wilt suffers from a bipolar disorder and has a live-in caretaker who called police.
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