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RIVERSIDE: Emergency negotiators help calm “violent and distraught” knife-wielding woman

January 20, 2018 Trevor Montgomery

RIVERSIDE — Members of Riverside PD’s Emergency Negotiation Team successfully calmed and detained a “violent and distraught” woman who locked herself inside a bathroom while armed with a knife, late Tuesday night, Jan. 16. Officers and other emergency first responders were dispatched to the 4500 block of Tomlinson Avenue in Riverside about 11:50 p.m., after the woman, who officials did not identify, […]

RIVERSIDE: Distraught man claiming to have gun safely detained after surgical center standoff

December 18, 2017 Trevor Montgomery

RIVERSIDE — Officials successfully apprehended a distraught man who locked himself inside a surgical center bathroom and threatened to shoot officers, Tuesday evening, Dec. 12. The tense situation forced the evacuation of Riverside Community Hospital’s DeAnza Surgery Center, on the 4400 block of Magnolia Avenue, in Riverside. Several officers responded to the surgical center about 6 p.m., after receiving reports of a man […]