SWAT Busts In After Fairview Man Rips Stove From Wall, Barricades Himself: Police

By Cecilia Levine From Daily Voice

A 50-year-old man barricaded himself inside his Fairview apartment early Saturday, Nov. 22, prompting a large police response that included SWAT and crisis negotiators, authorities said.

Upstairs tenants called police around 6 a.m. to report that a man was “fighting with himself” inside the unit, according to Fairview Deputy Chief John Pierrotti. Officers arrived and found the man barricaded inside the apartment, Pierrotti said.

The man was believed to be an emotionally disturbed person under the influence of drugs, the deputy chief said. SWAT and a negotiator were called to the scene. During the standoff, the man ripped a stove off the wall and used it to further barricade himself, police said.

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SWAT officers ultimately entered the apartment around 10 a.m. and took the man into custody peacefully, Pierrotti said.

The man also has active charges out of Ridgefield, where police say he had been making repeated calls and “menacing” the 911 call center, according to Pierrotti.

The man, whose name Daily Voice is withholding, had not been charged in the incident as of press time. Police confirm he had been involved in a similar incident over the summer in Edgewater.