|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Pleasanton police arrested a man with a knife in his car Thursday morning after a standoff that lasted more than 90 minutes.
At approximately 6:50 a.m., police received a call requesting a welfare check on a person who appeared to be unconscious in the driver’s seat of a white car, which was blocking the road near Muirwood Drive and West Las Positas Boulevard.
Officers arrived and found a male asleep behind the wheel. Noticing the condition of the car and a damaged tire, police assumed it was in a collision.
When police asked the man to step out of the car, they said he refused and appeared intoxicated.
Officers spotted a knife on the car’s floor near the driver, prompting police to ask dispatch for additional officers, clinicians, and a trained crisis negotiator.
Police said they spent more than 90 minutes negotiating, but the man remained uncooperative. Officers eventually safely removed the man from the car and took him into custody without injury.
They took him to Santa Rita Jail, where he was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence and resisting arrest.
— Story by Tony Hicks, Bay City News
