RICHMOND, VA (WTVR) – Police closed off West Franklin Street between Jefferson Street and Belvidere Street in Richmond, Virginia Friday afternoon after a man refused to come out of his apartment.
Richmond Police spokeswoman Dionne Waugh told WTVR.com that police responded to a disturbance call of a man yelling just after 1 p.m.
The man barricaded himself inside his apartment in a building along the 300 block of West Franklin Street.
Police tried unsuccessfully to get the subject to come out.
Police eventually got a medical warrant and went in to retrieve the suspect.
Officers took the man into custody without incident. He was taken to a medical facility to be evaluated.
Officials said charges are pending against the man.
