This story was updated on Friday, May 30, 2025, at 7:50 p.m.
A man was coaxed down from a power structure Friday afternoon with the help of local mental health officials, ending a standoff that began Tuesday morning when the individual scaled PG&E equipment at South First Street and Cutting Boulevard.
Members of A3, Contra Costa County’s mental and behavioral health crisis services team, and ROCK, Richmond’s Community Crisis Response Program, were eventually able to persuade the man to come down from the structure. He now faces an array of charges…