GRANITE FALLS — One man was in custody and a woman battered but alive after a standoff ended without gunfire Friday morning at an apartment along Crooked Mile Road near Granite Falls.
The road was closed for hours while a SWAT team tried to convince the man, a convicted felon, 42, to surrender.
Neighboring apartments were evacuated after police were told the man had a rifle.
The incident began just after 7 a.m. with a 911 call from an apartment in the 17800 block of Crooked Mile Road.
“The caller never spoke to the dispatcher, however a man could be heard violently assaulting a woman in the background,” Snohomish County sheriff’s Capt. Susy Johnson said in a press release.
Deputies learned later that the man thought he’d broken the cellphone the woman used to dial 911. Instead, the device remained connected to the county’s emergency-dispatch center.
When deputies arrived, the man refused to leave the home and held the woman, 40, against her will, Johnson said.
The Region One SWAT Team, made up of sheriff’s deputies and Everett police officers, set up around the apartment and began negotiating. The man surrendered at about 11 a.m.
He was arrested and expected to be booked into the county jail on a variety of charges.
The woman was treated for injuries that were not believed to be life threatening.
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