Santee suspicious device

SWAT STANDOFF IN SANTEE & POSSIBLE EXPLOSIVE DEVICE IN LAKESIDE

 Update 11 a.m. - The SWAT situation has been resolved and one suspect has been taken into custody, Lt.  Walker has confirmed. No further information on the possible explosive device is yet available.

 

Update 3:15 p.m.  The suspect has been identified as Sean Arevalo, 31.

March 16, 2011 (Santee) A SWAT team is at the scene of a home on Chantilly Court a few blocks east of Woodside, where a caller said a man threatened violence. He has since barricaded himself in a back bedroom with his girlfriend, the Union-Tribune reports.


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