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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.
In addition, Santee Fire and the Sheriff’s bomb squad have been dispatched to a second location at Collinwood Drive and Edding Road regarding a suspicious device in the same general vicinityas the other SWAT incident, Incident Page Network reports. Lt.Jim Walker with San Diego Sheriff has told ECM the suspicious device is a drinking can with a C02 cartidge on top of it, located in the 11900 block of Lakeside. “The bomb arson unit has been notified,” he confirmed, but added that he does not believe the two incidents are related.
A female roommate of the suspect in the SWAT operation called to report that “he said he was going to kill her and the cops,” Sheriff’s Sgt. Tom Poulin told the Union-Tribune. The female roommate and another man sleeping in the garage escaped the home, but the suspect’s girlfriend remains inside with the suspect.
It is unclear whether she is being held hostage or an accomplice, however 10 News reports that the caller has a restraining order against the suspect. “They are trying to talk the guy out by using his friends and family in the negotiations,” ECM photographer Dennis Richards said of officials on the scene.
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