A San Diego police dog was injured during a SWAT standoff at a Gaslamp Quarter apartment complex on Tuesday, and the suspect was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
The standoff began around 7 a.m. when a woman \u2014 who said last Friday she had been hit over the head with a baseball bat \u2014 reported that the man she alleged assaulted her was in his apartment near Second and West Island avenues near San Diego Children\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n
Police arrived and learned the possibly armed man was inside his apartment, Officer Colin Steinbroner said.<\/p>\n
Officers quickly evacuated the nearby apartments and established a perimeter around the building, hoping to get the suspect to leave the apartment, Steinbroner said. A SWAT unit was also dispatched to the scene.<\/p>\n
During the incident, San Diego police asked residents and nearby commuters via social media to avoid the area due to the ongoing incident.<\/p>\n
Heading into late Tuesday afternoon, officers decided to use less-lethal methods to remove the man from the apartment, dropping tear gas and sending a dog into the unit.<\/p>\n
The cause and extent of the injuries to the police dog were not immediately known.<\/p>\n
The man eventually left the apartment and was taken into custody soon after, Steinbroner said.<\/p>\n
No other information about the incident was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego police dog was injured during a SWAT standoff at a Gaslamp Quarter apartment complex on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":452186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,43631,1370,728,50,3549,3550,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-452185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-gaslamp-quarter","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-county","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-top-stories-sdut","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}