Police sealed off a downtown Denver block Wednesday morning before cops used a battering ram and a remote-controlled robot to bring a barricaded suspect into custody.
Around 10:40 a.m., police pushed through the front door of the building at 2250 Lawrence St. and then sent in a remote-controlled camera, mounted on a robot.
Officers then entered the building and brought out a man that they put on the ground and handcuffed.
Denver Police Detective John White said an auto-theft task-force investigation had led officers to the scene, where at least one suspect was holed up and wouldn’t come out.
Before the capture, officers used a bullhorn in an attempt to communicate with the suspect, telling him to come out of the one-story building near the Denver Rescue Mission.
Officers were on scene before 5 a.m.
During the standoff, Lawrence Street was shut down between 22nd Street and Park Avenue West.
The Denver Rescue Mission was evacuated as a precaution, and dozens of mission clients cheered as the man was taken into custody.
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