A 23-year-old man was arrested this weekend after a 90-minute standoff with San Mateo police officers after an apparent domestic violence incident, police said.
Police were called at about 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 1, to the 500 block of First Avenue on a report that the man had threatened his girlfriend with a firearm.
The man, German Alvarado, was found soon thereafter sitting in a car nearby, and refused police officers’ commands to get out, police Sgt. Amanda Von Glahn said in a statement.
San Mateo Police Crisis Negotiations Team officers remained in contact with Alvarado, who emerged from his vehicle after about 90 minutes. No one was injured.
Alvarado was booked into the San Mateo County Jail on suspicion of making criminal threats, brandishing a loaded firearm, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possession of a high-capacity magazine.
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Great job and outcome San Mateo Police Department.
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