Massive ‘disturbance’ at Captain Hook Hotel’ in Anchorage, Alaska sees armed cops swarm scene and seal off area
POLICE have arrested a suspect in relation to a complaint regarding a man who was barricaded in a building with a weapon on Friday.
The Anchorage Police Department said a man who was “barricaded in a room after making threats with a weapon” was taken into custody, reports .
Police said in a that a suspect was taken into custody with no further incident and no injuries were reported.
Streets surrounding the Captain Cook Hotel were reopened following the arrest.
Cherie Zajdzinski, a police department spokesperson, said this was not an active shooter incident.
A Twitter user posted saying there was an active shooter in the hotel. The video shows an officer near his squad car in a parking lot pointing a firearm toward the building.
Police asked people to avoid the area. They first alerted the public of road closures and a large police presence around 3pm local time.
At 4.45pm, the roads remained closed and police cars were seen around Hotel Captain Cook.
Officers with rifles entered the building, the .
The unit deployed to the area included the Crisis Negotiation Team and the Investigative Support Unit.
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Three officers waved away pedestrians and told them there was a man on a top floor threatening to shoot people after claiming he had access to multiple weapons.
Nick Weatherman, manager of Anchorage Pel’meni on K Street, that police pulled out rifles and helmets when they arrived on the scene and began pointing their weapons at the tower of the hotel.
No further details were released Friday night.
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