A man is in custody after his involvement in a standoff with Brunswick Police, where authorities say he barricaded himself in a home for about nine hours on Wednesday.
Just before 7:40 a.m. on Wednesday, Brunswick officers responded to the 2800 block of Grafton Road in an attempt to arrest a 36-year-old man for a Federal Supervised Release Violation warrant, police said.
After confirming the man was at the residence, officers announced their presence, and the man barricaded himself in the basement with an unknown woman, police said.
"We're horrified, and we're hopeful, of course, that ... a woman will be released safely, and just that ... someone has gotten themselves in that big of a mess is holed up in a house somewhere. We're grateful, frankly, that the professionals were there to handle the situation," neighbor Rob Conrad said.
The man, who is known to have guns, made threats to harm law enforcement; officers established, and the Southwest Enforcement Bureau SWAT team was activated, police said.
Conrad, who has lived in the area for the past 29 years, described his neighborhood as typically quiet and a place where neighbors get along.
However, Wednesday morning was different. Conrad said he looked out his window around 9 a.m. to find SWAT and police cars on Grafton Road.
"I saw a police car in the intersection over here ... on Grafton, and I thought maybe there'd been an accident," Conrad said. "All of a sudden, a lot of other cars descended on the area, and there was a lot of other kinds of cars, like SWAT ... there's clearly something else going on. No way to know exactly what it was. And then it just kind of blossomed from there, and it's been this crazy show since then."
Negotiators were on the scene, speaking with the man to facilitate his surrender, police said.
The man was forcefully removed from the home after 4 p.m. with the use of drones and gas, police said. The woman who was in the house is OK.
The man has been medically cleared and transported to the Medina County Jail, police said.
All impacted roads have been reopened.
