Potter County indicts man for Christmas Eve SWAT standoff at Garden Apartments

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) – A grand jury voted to indict an Amarillo man who initiated a tense SWAT standoff on Christmas Eve.

Darius Vincent Solis is charged with tampering with an electronic monitoring device and evading arrest or detention with a vehicle.

Court documents for Solis say that he removed his ankle monitor several days before Thanksgiving—despite the requirement to wear one being part of his conditions of parole.

Shortly after midnight on Christmas Eve, police were called out to the Garden Apartments on S. Roberts Street on a report that Solis was hiding in an apartment there…

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