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SWAT Team Safely Removes Toms River Man Barricaded With Bat, Knives SWAT Team Safely Removes Toms River Man Barricaded With Bat, Knives
SWAT Team Safely Removes Toms River Man Barricaded With Bat, Knives A standoff between police and a Toms River man armed with knives and a bat ended safely, authorities said. The man initially ignored police commands to come out of a home, but eventually was taken into custody by a SWAT team without incident, the police chief said in a press statement. Toms River police were called to Patmas Drive at 4:05 p.m. Tuesday on a report of a man barricaded inside a residence, according to Toms River Police Chief Mitchell A. Little. An "emotionally disturbed male (was) acting erratically in the residence," according to Little's statement. Family members livi…

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by Jon Craig