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COALINGA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Coalinga antheral was arrested Monday aft allegedly threatening to termination his neighbour and barricading himself from officers overnight, the Coalinga Police Department announced.
Police study connected Sunday conscionable aft 9 p.m., they responded to the 200 artifact of Lincoln Street for transgression threats betwixt neighbors.
Responding officers said witnesses told them the suspect, aboriginal identified arsenic Richard Lee Smithson, was holding a achromatic firearm helium claimed was a .22 caliber one-shot firearm portion allegedly making credible threats astir sidesplitting his neighbor.
After viewing the full enactment done a video recorded connected a witness's phone, constabulary accidental they attempted to interaction Smithson astatine his home, but helium refused to travel out. Smithson turned disconnected each the lights and barricaded himself inside.
During this time, officers accidental they breached the beforehand doorway to look wrong for the evident achromatic firearm Smithson had. Several attempts to get him to travel extracurricular were made earlier further resources were called to assist, including CHP and the CDCR Crisis Response Team.
After 8 hours of negotiating, investigators accidental they warned if helium did not exit, they would deploy chemic agents wrong to get him to exit. Eventually, Smithson was told that Coalinga K9 Officer "Boss" would beryllium deployed wrong to apprehend him if helium did not travel out.
Because of K9 Boss's "boisterous presence," constabulary accidental Smithson surrendered and was taken into custody. During a hunt warrant of his home, investigators recovered the achromatic firearm and determined it was a replica.
Coalinga Police study Smithson was booked connected aggregate charges, including felony transgression threats.
