[siren]
It's 2:30 in the morning.
We have an armed barricaded subject in a house up north.
[music playing]
[siren]
There the district officers went
to arrest him on a warrant.
He shouted at the officers, threatening a gunfight.
The problem on this one is he's not alone.
We think that there's up to three other people in there
with him.
[siren]
They're adults?
They are all adults.
Residents in question is a gray, two
storey residential structure.
I do not know about fencing, unknown about dogs,
unknown about weapons.
[music playing]
Any type of situation where they're
manufacturing methamphetamine poses a whole bunch
of significant risks.
The chemicals and manufacturing process that are involved
are volatile and explosive.
[siren]
We're going to set up some [inaudible]..
In a situation like this where there's
a chance for explosives, we're going to need more cover.
And that's why we're taking in the Bear.
[music playing]
This is the Bear.
This is basically my company car.
It's 12 feet tall.
It's 24 feet long, and it weighs 33,000 pounds.
He's got a four-wheel drive, half inch reinforced
armoring, bulletproof glass.
Inside the Bear, we can hold 14 fully
equipped tactical officers.
Yeah.
From the safety, we have the reinforced armoring
and the bulletproof glass.
They have the ability to engage targets
360 degrees around the Bear through these weapons ports.
If this car ends up in your driveway,
you know we mean business.
OK, guys they're supposed to be four to six adults
in here, three males for sure.
There is a strong smell of ether,
so there's a possibility that they might be cooking meth.
Let's be aware of that.
[music playing]
Repeating the entry team that is now deployed at 3:38
From the front side of the house, we have seen nothing.
It looks like maybe there is a candle in the front room,
because it flickers every once in a while.
Well, there's been no signs of movement from inside.
We have negotiators en route.
They're going to negotiate from the barrack.
One of the problems we're running into right now
is some of our cover team members
are experiencing some problems with the streetlights.
They're backlighting the officers
and basically makes them a silhouette target
for anybody inside.
370 to 380.
Could you take this light out, just to our west?
Maybe.
Yeah.
[music playing]
Hey.
Step up in there.
We want to do everything we possibly can
to avoid any kind of gunfire.
So we're going to have our negotiators
try to contact these people and see if we can talk them out.
My name is John.
I'm the guy here to help you get out of this mess.
Sure enough.
The situation does not need to go on anymore.
We've been talking to this guy trying to get him to respond
to us for some time now.
We're getting nothing out of the house, whatsoever.
It's getting a little frustrating
that he won't respond.
We begin to get a little concerned
that maybe something may have happened inside the house we
don't know about.
Hey, captain, this is Jim.
Hadn't heard any radio traffic.
I just wanted to confirm that we haven't detected
or observed any motion inside the residence
since our arrival, correct?
Here's a better picture.
Great.
And she pays $800 a month rent.
And she's prepaid for eight months.
She didn't want anybody near that house.
It sounds like.
Right now, from a tactical perspective,
one of our primary goals is to really get a good look
inside of the garage.
We have had enough intelligence gathered that causes to believe
there possibly is a meth lab.
And we want to be very cautious.
Captain Heimer.
OK, cap.
We need to get a look inside that garage.
OK?
The suspect has made threats of a gunfight.
But we don't know how he's going to react
when we approach the house.
Yeah, stage first.
OK, coming up.
Get some light in there.
There's two cars. OK, I see it.
I see it. I see it.
They're right next to each other.
OK.
Let's move back.
I think that ether smell was from working on the cars.
It appears that the fumes are coming from the cars
and not a meth lab.
That doesn't change the fact that we
still have people inside.
And we don't know if they have guns.
5:30.
We're coming up on daylight pretty soon.
They've had ample time.
We've disconnected power to the house.
So we're getting ready to deploy a throw phone in.
And that'll give them a line of communication.
370 to CP and cover team, a five-man team is
going up to deploy the phone.
Chris, will you put that spotlight in the window?
What?
Put that spotlight in the window.
OK.
[music playing]
370 to CP, the throw phone is in.
The team is moving back.
[phone ringing]
[interposing voices]
OK, are you there?
Do you have your full squad staged and ready to go?
I need you guys get ready to deploy gas into the residence
if we're not going to have any success
with contacting the suspects with the throw phone.
We're going to go ahead and throw gas.
So if you guys could mask up and be prepared for that,
we'll be ready to go.
All right, captain.
All right.
Get your gas mask out and get ready because we're
probably going to deploy gas.
We'll give them a couple chances to answer
the throw phone if they doubt.
He wants us to do gas, and he wants
us checking it within about 30 seconds
of him giving the order.
[phone ringing]
Yeah, we're ready to make entry.
Let's go ahead and do it.
Saddle up, guys.
We're heading up.
We're going up.
We're going to hold on the front door.
Hold on. Hold on.
We got coming out.
One coming out.
Go, go, go.
Keep walking back.
--in a circle.
Watch the windows as well, guys.
[interposing voices]
Watch those windows up top, guys.
Watch those windows.
Just a second, OK?
Who else is in there, brother?
One other person?
One other person.
OK.
OK, listen up, guys.
We're going to go ahead make entry.
Go, go, go.
Watch these windows.
Cover high. Cover high.
Cover high. Keep going.
Keep going.
Where's he at?
Is he moving at all?
--just not moving.
OK, go, go, go, go, go.
[inaudible]
Move, move move.
Keep going.
Coming in behind you.
Where's he at?
OK, can you see him?
It's dried up blood on him.
He's been there for a minute.
OK, I'm going my glass.
We're [inaudible].
From the looks of the deceased,
he had been there for some time.
It was obvious that this had occurred
quite some time earlier.
Well, you never like to see a police incident in this way.
Certainly unfortunate for everyone involved.
The people that find him, the people that
have to deal with his loss as well.
So it's, you know, unfortunate that someone feels the things
have gotten that bad.
And that's the only way out for him.
[music playing]