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Suspect arrested in barricade at Las Vegas apartment complex

Updated January 19, 2019 - 4:20 pm

Las Vegas police have arrested a suspect after a “domestic incident” Saturday afternoon in the northeast valley that resulted in a barricade at an apartment complex, with some residents evacuated.

Officers were called at about 11:30 a.m. to the 2100 block of Exeter Drive, near East Lake Mead Boulevard and North Hollywood Boulevard, after report of a “domestic incident,” the Metropolitan Police Department said in an email Saturday afternoon.

The situation turned into a barricade, and some residents of the apartment complex were evacuated “as a precaution,” police said.

A suspect was taken into custody without incident, police later said.

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