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Pasadena Police Avoid Tragedy, Arrest Suspect Who Assaulted Them, Threatened to Shoot Them

Suspect reportedly hurls stroller, tries to launch gas barbeque down stairs at police as he shouts he will shoot them

Published on Monday, March 2, 2015 | 9:38 am
 

Pasadena police officers arrested a suspect Sunday night who reportedly assaulted them, refused to comply with their orders to remove his hands from his pockets, and said he had a gun and would shoot them.

The incident unfolded at an apartment  complex in the 400 block of North Garfield Avenue about 8:35 p.m. last night when officers responded to a 911 call from a woman saying her ex-husband was pounding on her apartment door and would not leave, Lt. Mark Goodman said.

“Officers confronted the suspect on a second floor landing,” Goodman said. “He refused to comply with orders of the officers and threw a stroller down a flight of steps at the officers.”

The suspect claimed to have a firearm and refused to take his hands out of his pockets, prompting officers to pull their service weapons during the tense faceoff, Goodman said.

After the suspect tried but failed to hurl a gas barbeque down the stairs at the advancing police, the officers were able to run up to the top of the stairwell. There they engaged the suspect at gunpoint and he complied with their orders.

Luis Olvera, 24, of Pasadena was placed under arrest and taken to the Pasadena city jail, where he was booked for assault with a deadly weapon against police.

Goodman said that Olvera did not, in fact, have a gun in his possession.

“Officers used great restraint during the incident,” Goodman said.

 

 

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