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SWAT TEAM APPREHENDS MAN

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Juan Rosales, SC'.ued, yells ou[ in pain after being shot with a Taser stun gun at the end ofa six~hour standoff with
authorities in Longmont on Monday.

Lo
2 schools locked
down as SWAT

team searched for

man wanted on
warrants

LONGMONT - Children
at two elementary 9Chools hid
inside classrooms, and nearly
50 apartment.s buildings were
evacuated as a SWAT tcarn attempted 10 apl)rchcnd a man
Monday wanted on several
warrants.

ont standoff resolved
Juan RosaIe5. 28, o( Longmont, barTkaded himgelf inside of • Stonhedge Pt-ce
apartment (or !It'.t,al hou~
before a police negotiator

outstanding warrants includ- bert, one of I!le.e, al officers at
ing a domestic violence ioti- th< ~bool.
dent, !IeCODlkIegree kidnapThe officers and teachers
ping and carrying a conc:eaIed
ensured thai the lIOfOe ISO
"""""children who oonnaDy walk
talked him into coming outTwo nearby elemenwy home were picked up by par.
side aI about 6:30 p.m.
schools.
Columbine
and ro...
Once outstde the building, Rocky Mountain, were orMaria PeiIa was at Colum600 Martin St., Rosales point- dered locked down about bine to pick up her 9-ye-ar1>k1
"..~
ed II cell phone at officen simW~
Columbine
Elementary
ulating II gun and was immedi-My kid never came home,
ately subdued with II TiI!Ier School was approximately
thret: block!! from where and there are cops all OYer the
stun gun.
SWAT officers found Rosales. place: she said. -It's a scary
No one was hurt during the
situation.·
"We
are
just
telling
them
nearly six-hour effort to locate
there is a problem in the
Co~tad Christopher A~de,..
and arrest Rosales.
neighborhood and that the JO~ at (303) 473-1355 or a~­
He was wanted on several school is safe: said Jacki Shu- demmc@lhedail,camero.com.

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By Am.ndll Arthur
and Tra.vl. Henry
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WNGMONT A Lonamont
man was arrested after he lwarri·
caded hirru;elf in an apartment and
teptpolice at boly for more lhan SIX

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Juan RolIlIles, 211, 1II'8lked uninvited into an apartment in the Stone-

hed3e P","ce a.Jllutmenl comple1.
at 600 Martin Street, around 12 )0
after a police olTICeI" spotted
. in the comple:%, Longmont P0lice Cmdr. Cnig EartJart said.

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"The officer saw him go into one of
the apartment5, and bel'ore lbey could
get a good perimeter set up, he apparently ~ to a secood apartmenL
Now we believe he went into a lhird
apartment: heAid.
RolIlIles was belirved to ha\"e visited
aputmentll-47 and 1-49, he !laid. Ro5ales b not a resident or the apartment
complex.
Jody Beach saki Rosales - who is

doff

entered

unlocked

door around 12:30.
"' was slee:;.ing and he came in.... 1
didn't kr\(IW anything was wrong until
the pollee came to the door,' she Aid.
She left tbeapartment with olfiterJ,
but Rosa)er; relused to leave, aile laid.
Longmont police SWAT tflllm 1I1flll.
ben; and patrol offiterll set up both in,
ner and outer perimeten of the scene.
Earhart said.
"We set up.n inner perimeter with
SWAT to make lItIn! he doesn't get
.way and then an outer ~er to
make llUft 00 one comes mto the atH
and possibly is hann«t: he Aid.
Police had beet! looking for Rosales
lor .some time, he said.
"He'll got multiple warrants, live or
sO: of them, with boIKb tlltalina
m,ooo.~ he Aid.

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The WHl'rllllls included charges
of carrying II eonceoled weapon,

laced an "tocktlown" during the
encideut,
he Sltid.
Columbine Elementary and

weeks carlier.
lnllinl reporlll indicated ROSlIlel
\\'115 in possessioo of II weapon, bllt
1~lIch s.11<.1 when he nrrived Dll~r

Rocky Mountain Elementary wert!
both locked down, and buses tnmsporting children who live in the
IlrM - e diverted.
Some student$ from Hentage
Middle SdIooI were prevented
from returning'" their homes after school
Earhart aid stuMnU from the
diverted buses were taken to the
Longmollt YMCA.
C<Jlllml>ine WIt! locked down lit
Ilpproximately 12:30 p.m., and 8tll,limts went to It [M"e-dclcrmiIlCfI
Nlfo llron In 1IM1lr cIlt!l.'1nM""S; ull
IIf the ,1onr1; were locked, Silid st..
V... in Valley School District
Spokeswoman Nllncy IIl':1"berL
Columbine princiP.B:i Brett [)rob.
ney said that the chIldren rt!SpOIIlded well when the on:ier f(lf" Il Iockl!ownnme,
'We have practiced these drills
bt>tore," Drobney aid. "11M! teach·
ers kept them calm."
Wilell school was scheduled to
let n"t at 3 II.m., students who art!
l>"sed outside or the area were elIe<>r1ed tn their buStl'S by police orfi-

home, lie WilS unarmed.

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Officers eYllCUllted severlIIl
btllldmss near the apartment Rt'>!i.
a\@soccupied but met some res.ls.
lanct!! from known POI memb«s,
Elirhart said.
The sang members refused to
leave their apartment unUl pollee
litter arrived with It search warrallt, Earhnrt &/tid.
lie sait! police believed Rosalell
had the possibility of hidmg in lJoth
1-47 arid 1-49 with access to both
through a crawl space that joined
the apartments.
Nearby so:hoo!s In the aru were

"We relNsed tids who needed to
go home on buses,. Herbert said.
"11ley were not in the restricted

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kidnapping relaloo

10 domestic violence, traHie 01femes, failure toappear in court 10
race c... ,,~ and obetmcting jllsti«, he ••"d.
011lo5e aren't pIlrtlrnlarly dan_
gerous,· he said
Ro6all!!$ does, however, haft an
6tensive criminal history that includes lQUI" counts of assault, olle

cOllnt of rnelladng and one COllnt
of can'ylng II concealed weapon,
according In Colortlll0 conrl
nH~,ls.

IlIlSlIlc!1 also

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allcgo..~ll)' ,lan~1

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pollee olrt"er to shoot lIim a' the
scene of II reported knife fight in
September 19M, ac:cording 10 po.
Ike reports.
Earhart said police look special
precautions when lacing ROSIlles,
because they had received reporta
that RGSaIe.'l rnlgllt haw: beeu car
rylng II C<lllccoled weapon tWIl

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Parenti who arrived at the
lICbooI were allowed to pick up
their children aner they ....ere POSItively identified by officers; the
same situlttioll took place at Rocky
Mountain Elementary.
Studcnts who walk home or
whose parents hadn't arrived at
the school yet were treated t.o
snacbl and ll1(IYies in the gymnllsi·

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Ollt of tlle 4~5 student.s Itt
Coll1ml>ine, Drol>ney estimated
that UO were kept on the school
grounds after tile lockdown until
their parents arTived.
Drobney said that school ~
""'1'« orlicen kept a pIItro1 01 thot!
..hooI lrounds .nd ~ in con$bot contact with school olflCials.
"We felt absolutely sate," Drabney aid. "It certIlinly is nice to
!mow people acted a~iately
in a time of emergerocy.
Parents said the situatioll was a
little chaotic but not horrible.
°1 called the school and they tald
mo it W1lS fHllockdnwII '11M'y Nllid I
elM,I,1 ...~"tlC Iliek IllY kills 111',"
Uenl/ldelte Gaffin tlli'l
Garno is also a resident or the
Stonehedge Place tomplex.
-'l1lt!n I come home and it's all
goirc on here," she said.
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EJrhart said negotiat.on; from
the SWAT team established COlI· Polke lurround Juan Ro• • •
tact with Rosales via telephone after they used 8 T8Sef on I*n
allli worked diligently as Rosales after he emerged from a six-hour
"both escalated lint! de-escalated st<WXloff In a Martin Street
tho sitlllllion" at times.
apartment Monday.
lto&alea gave himself lip t.o offi·
cers jllst :tfter &:J(l II.m. amit!
110 said 110 believed ltnsnlcs
UlrelltS Ul.~l he might commit sui· _lid pos.sibly race Ilkhtinnal
eide, t::"rhart SlIid.
dwtrgesol raistlni arrest.
was a bit of I slniggle
.A1thoush the situation may not
....hen be (RosaJesl cameoul. of the have
been al dangeroosllS Initially
~" he said. "He "".I very .Sreported,
Ombney didn't f.ItINIj(lIT
gress,ve and pointed • conIlesa
the police department's actions.
phone at oIfi~ 10 they used •
°1 can't 5flCOnd..guesI law enThser to subdue hIm."
Pulice did not find II weapon on forcement. I am not a trained police.officer, I /1m a trained princi·
Rosales.
Hesldcnts were Illinwed to retllrn 11111," Drobney 8111d. "!Is n dllll, 1
to their nl1.1rtments at about 6:45 wfM!ld want Ihe priucipallu act like
I acted. Lock it llown and keep ev·
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Earhart said Rosales would be eryone 8IIfe.·
booted at the Longmont Police De- _~_",""_",3I»11epIIrtment and tafen immediately n.o•.
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