Desert Hot Springs police standoff leads to explosive discovery inside a home
Police and a bomb squad removed an explosive device from a Desert Hot Springs home where a man had been barricaded early Tuesday morning.
Officers were called to the 12200 block of Ocotillo Road shortly after midnight for reports of shots fired, according to police.
Nobody was injured, but officers surrounded the neighborhood. Police said they later discovered a suspect was refusing to come out.
A Bearcat was sent to the scene and the suspect eventually surrendered.
A team of bomb technicians was also called to the scene, arriving shortly after 5:00 a.m. A search warrant was obtained and the team promptly went to work to remove what police said was an explosive device.
The police activities shut down Ocotillo Drive from Buena Vista to Pierson Boulevard.
The suspect, a 31-year-old man from Desert Hot Springs, was arrested and booked into the John Beoint Detention Center in Indio on $1 million bail.
He faces charges of attempted murder, assault with a firearm, possession of a destructive device and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The suspect has not been officially charged as of Tuesday afternoon.
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