Patrol was attempting to survey a felony
arrest warrant on a suspect.
As patrol pulled up to his house,
the suspect took off running inside of his house.
He barricaded himself and patrol formed a perimeter
and called SWAT.
Show me the house.
it's-- it's not this one.
It's the one right in front of it, there.
Right now, I'm acting as a perimeter officer
to make sure that he doesn't come
out the back side of the house.
OK, so based on your information
and what you're going to tell me is that he was a felon,
he got caught with a gun, he bonded out for five grand,
and now he's reneged on the five--
on the bond, and that's why he's got the warrant out.
MISTY VANCUREN: I don't know very much.
I know that he has a felony warrant for some kind
of weapons charge.
I'm part of the entry team, and if we decide
to go in after the guy, I'll be part
of that team that goes inside.
See that B1 window?
That's a water heater.
He has something on there that doesn't
belong on a water heater, so it could be a shooting platform.
And then the B2 window, he's been looking out
over that blue thing in there.
In the back of his house, he has
a porch with an attic opening with all of his weapons
in the attic.
The fourth window in, he's got a bow set up for hunting,
so I'd assume he had [inaudible] heads on it, which would
virtually go through our vest.
WILLIAM HUMPHREY: Well, we've got a couple of phone numbers
with the cell phone.
If we can get him to talk to us on the cell phone,
we'll do that.
[phone ringing]
[inaudible]
MAILBOX VOICEOVER: Sorry, that voice mailbox is full.
Please call again later.
Goodbye.
OK, well, we can't use his number.
We can't even leave a phone number in it,
because his mailbox is full.
Our command post has a phone that we actually physically
throw into the structure to try to establish
a negotiation or communication.
It's starting to transition into nighttime,
so the light is an issue to us.
If we stay behind light, anything in front of that light
would be blinded to what's behind it, therefore we
gain the element of surprise.
We need to get rid of that light,
because I can't see any of those windows.
[glass breaking]
OFFICER: It's the Dallas Police Department SWAT team.
We have the house totally surrounded.
We don't want to see anyone get hurt.
You need to come to the back door with your hands up,
and you will be given instructions on what to do.
Come out.
You will not be armed.
It sounds like they're getting ready to deploy
the throw phone now.
[glass breaking]
OFFICER: We've put a telephone in there for you.
You need to answer the telephone.
[honking]
J.D. BYAS: As of right now, we haven't been
able to get any communication.
OFFICER: Do the right thing for your family.
If not for you, do it for your family.
At least answer the telephone and talk to us.
J.D. BYAS: He's not answering the cell phone.
He's not answering to the loud hailer.
He's not picking up the throw phone.
What we're going to do now is, we're going to end up
deploying gas into the house.
That my gas gun?
[gun shots]
J.D. BYAS: We've tried to do everything
we can to get any type of response from this guy,
and we haven't had anything.
So what we're doing now is we're actually sending in our team
in to see if we can find him.
Four of us are going to make entry through the baker side
door, which is the back door.
And we're going to do a slow search and search for--
room to room.
OK, got it.
We're ready to go in.
You ready?
OFFICER: Yeah, you good?
OFFICER: Good.
MISTY VANCUREN: I'm with you. I'm with you.
Keep going.
All right, you want to do the closet first?
J.D. BYAS: My understanding of the house is it's cluttered.
MISTY VANCUREN: Is there any way to get in those boards,
behind that?
There's a million places he could be hiding,
so they're making sure that they leave no stone unturned.
Can you see that corner down in there?
[inaudible]
Our entry team has been searching this structure
for a little while now.
No sign of a suspect yet, however
they recovered a couple of rifles
in the-- inside the house.
But he just didn't disappear, did he?
OFFICER: We've been out here total about six hours.
They're in the process of searching the attic right now.
It's also the most dangerous.
First part of your body that goes through an attic opening
is your head.
This guy has weapons, and he can shoot
at the first thing he sees.
He's in.
He's in here.
We got him.
[interposing voices]
Keep your hands out in front of you.
OFFICER: I got a place to go.
Back him up.
Back him up to me.
Back him--
OFFICER: Received, 71.
Suspect's in custody at 11:15.
I got him.
WILLIAM HUMPHREY: He withstood a lot of gas,
he withstood a lot of searching, and he stayed
secreted for a long time.
Very, very unusual.
MISTY VANCUREN: He was in a cubby,
like you had to crawl through two different things
to get back in there.
Yeah, Scotty had to take off everything to crawl back there.
OFFICER: To get in there?
MISTY VANCUREN: Yeah.
What, what is the deal?
Got a warrant for your arrest. [interposing voices]
That just behind a warrant?
Yeah.
[bleep] damn, dawg.
You've been up there the whole time?
Yes, sir.
Hey, How'd you do with the gas?
How did you handle it?
seriously.
Covered my mouth.
It's kicking my ass, man.
But turns out, he's been gassed in prison before.
He's used to it, so he knew we were out here.
He knew why we were out here.
And he played the game.
Turns out he lost.