Police cordon off a section of a street where a suspect barricaded himself from officers. (Peter Dawson/FOX5)
(Peter Dawson/FOX5)
Mitereo Ramirez (LVMPD)LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -
Police have identified the man arrested Friday for causing a SWAT standoff by barricading himself in a car in the area of Ridgedale Avenue and Lamb Boulevard.
Mitereo Ramirez, 29, of Las Vegas, is currently in isolation at Clark County Detention Center. He faces charges of attempted murder of a police officer, assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm from a vehicle and resisting a police officer with a firearm.
Police said the incident started just after 7 a.m. Friday when they received a call from a person who reported he found an unknown man sleeping inside his vehicle.
When police arrived, the man refused to get out of the car.
After a SWAT team arrived in an attempt to get the man to surrender peacefully, he fired several shots from inside the vehicle. No one was struck.
At about 11:30 a.m., SWAT pumped gas into the vehicle and the man finally exited the car armed with a handgun. Ramirez then dropped the gun and tried to flee by jumping over a wall. Officers and K-9 units took him into custody following a short struggle. Ramirez received minor injuries.
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