Hemet family violence leads to barricaded standoff

June 15, 2020 Trevor Montgomery

UPDATED: Monday, June 15, 2 p.m.

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HEMET, Calif. — Online jail records indicate officials arrested the man involved in last Friday’s hours-long, armed and barricaded standoff.

Jesse Martinez, 36, of Hemet, was taken into custody after officials used lengthy negotiations and flash bangs to convince him to exit a residence where he had barricaded himself following a baseball bat-related domestic violence incident involving his wife and other family members.

After his arrest, Martinez was booked into Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting corporal injuries upon his spouse, and making terrorist threats.

Records indicate Martinez remains in custody in lieu of $1 million bail or bond and is scheduled to be arraigned at Murrieta’s Southwest Justice Center June 16.

Original Story

HEMET, Calif. — A man who barricaded himself inside a Hemet home during a family disturbance led to an hours-long standoff that ended when crisis negotiators managed to talk him out of the residence. When the man finally exited his home he surrendered to officials without further incident and was taken into custody Friday afternoon, June 12.

Although no official information has been provided by the agencies involved in the incident, official radio traffic and witness statements indicated the standoff began after the man broke a window of one of his family member’s cars and may have assaulted or threatened his wife with a baseball bat.

Radio traffic indicated also the man then reportedly took a hand gun from a family member’s car and barricaded himself in the house. Family members at the scene also said several other weapons were in the residence.

All the police activity caused streets to be shut down in the area of the intersection of Dartmouth St. and Collegian Way, between Johnston and E. Whittier avenues.

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Deputies from the Hemet Sheriff’s Station were dispatched to the home around 1:41 p.m., after receiving reports of the violent incident.

When deputies arrived at the scene they learned the man was still barricaded inside the home and was refusing to come out.

Along with sheriff’s SWAT members, officials brought two armored tactical rescue vehicles, an armored battering ram, and other specialized equipment to the scene of Friday’s standoff. Eddie George/Hemet News photo

At about 2 p.m., officials at the home requested additional resources and SWAT members to the scene, at which time crisis negotiators along with two armored tactical rescue vehicles, an armored battering ram, and sheriff’s helicopter, along with other specialized equipment were brought to the location.

Family members at the scene later reported the incident began while the family was in the process of moving from the location. Witnesses also reported that while negotiating with the man, officials deployed flash bangs into the residence in an effort to force him from the home.

After communicating with the barricaded subject for several hours negotiators were able to convince the man to exit the home and surrender peacefully to waiting officers.

He was detained without further incident.

Because officials have not yet released any details or responded to requests for information related to the incident, it was not immediately known if the man was arrested or taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation.

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Trevor Montgomery, 48, moved in 2017 to the Intermountain area of Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source and Shasta County News Source. Additionally, he writes or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County based newspapers, Valley News, (the now defunct) Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; as well as Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County and Mountain Echo in Shasta County.

Trevor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg, breaking his back, and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident. (Click here to see segment of Discovery Channel documentary of Trevor’s accident.)

During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations; including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, and Lake Elsinore Station; along with other locations.

Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes.

Trevor has been married for more than 29 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and his “fluid family” includes 13 children and 16 grandchildren.