MIRAMAR, Fla. – Police officers arrested a domestic violence suspect after a standoff on Thursday afternoon in Miramar.
A special weapons and tactics team stood guard around a home at the intersection of Granada Boulevard and Nassau Drive, just south of Miramar Parkway. The man was hiding in the home’s fenced yard.
Tania Rues, a spokeswoman for the Miramar Police Department, described the “barricaded subject” scene as “very fluid.”
A police officer at the scene said witnesses at a nearby IHOP restaurant accused him of hurting a pregnant woman and running away when they called the police. Three women at IHOP, at 7990 Miramar Pkwy., said he beat her up.
“It was really sad,” one said.
Police officers received the report of the domestic battery at about 12:50 p.m., and as police officers approached the suspect at the restaurant’s parking lot, he took off running, police said.
Police officers believed the man had a firearm when they surrounded the home. A SWAT team that was training nearby quickly joined in. A SWAT officer armed with a rifle stood inside an armored vehicle that moved from the front of the home to the side of the yard.
Police officers evacuated two people from the home at about 2:40 p.m. The homeowner, Arnel Rabel, told Local 10 News reporter Liane Morejon that he had never seen the suspect before.
Rabel said the man was hiding on his property, but didn’t appear to try to get in his house.
The man eventually surrendered and police officers arrested him. The streets in the area reopened at about 3:15 p.m.
Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.
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