SWAT team arrests Bend man after six-hour ‘hostage rescue’ involving children
Published 2:16 pm Tuesday, May 23, 2023
- A Deschutes County Sheriff's Office deputy.
A six-hour standoff involving a SWAT team ended when police arrested a Bend man on Monday in what authorities described as a hostage situation involving a woman and her two children.
Jeremiah Anthony Vincent, 47, of Bend, is facing charges of violating parole after police received a report claiming he had assaulted a woman at a home on Tumalo Rim Drive.
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Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the home Monday morning to conduct a welfare check on the woman and her two children, who are younger than 4 years old, according to a press release from Sgt. Jason Wall.
The caller told 911 that the woman, a victim of prior domestic violence, was in the home with her two children and Vincent, Wall said. The caller said the woman was too scared to contact the police. When authorities reached her by phone, she denied being at the house, which police found was false.
Police then called in a SWAT team and treated the situation as a hostage rescue.
After six hours of investigation and negotiation, the woman agreed to leave the home with the children, but Vincent remained inside. Police broke in through the front door and Vincent went out the back, where he was arrested and taken to the Deschutes County jail.