A SWAT standoff ended peacefully just before 11 a.m. after a domestic disturbance at a home in Golden.
Sgt. Jean Miller, a spokeswoman for the Golden Police Department, said police initially responded to the house on Cougar Street, near Colfax and C-470, after they received a 911 call at about 4 a.m.
A man called 911 to say his girlfriend was trying to set their house on fire.
The man and woman had been “in this situation for the past several days,” Miller said.
The man and two kids — approximately in their early teens — got out of the house safely, but the woman was barricaded inside.
According to a release from Golden police, the man who called 911 told police he thought the woman may be armed with a butcher knife, and that she may have a rifle that was usually kept behind the door and that he hadn’t seen recently.
When police initially arrived, they entered the home and did not find the woman, but found a door to an interior bathroom shut.
Police backed out of the house and tried to make contact with the woman several times without getting a response, then waited for a SWAT team to arrive.
A regional Jefferson County SWAT team approached the house shooting bean bags through the window, and a K-9 officer was sent into the house to search for the woman.
Eventually, the SWAT team did a complete search of the home, breaking through the door of the interior bathroom, and found the woman.
The woman, who has not been identified, is now in custody.
Earlier Thursday morning, Golden police sent out an alert through an emergency phone call to several houses in the area asking residents to shelter in place. Police weren’t sure if the woman had any weapons in the home.
Yesenia Robles: 303-954-1372, yrobles@denverpost.com or @yeseniarobles
