Barricade in Ventura lasts hours
Ventura police serving a search warrant with a SWAT team wound up in an hours-long standoff that lasted into the early hours of Friday, April 11, with a man who previously threatened to kill officers, authorities said.
The barricade situation in the 300 block of North Catalina Street unfolded after an earlier incident involving the residence, Ventura Police Department officials said in a news release . The block in the city’s midtown area is located north of Poli Street, near the Ventura High School campus.
Patrol officers had previously responded to the home on April 5 to keep the peace when a former tenant was picking up her property. During the process, the primary resident, a 55-year-old Ventura man, had come out and threatened to kill the officers, saying he would “blow their skulls off,” according to the police account…