Peninsula Armed Standoff Ends With Suspect’s Arrest: DA

REDWOOD CITY, CA — A Redwood City armed standoff over the weekend ended with the arrest of a Peninsula woman, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said.

Jhovana Romeroleyte, 21 of San Mateo, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon (three counts) and making criminal threats (two counts) in connection with the standoff in the 500 block of Hilton Street, the DA’s Office said.

Romeroleyte was being held on $25,000 bail as of Tuesday.

Romeroleyte is accused of threatening to kill three family members (her sister, mother and a nephew) in an apparent paranoid delusional mental state in which she warned that “they” were coming to get them, the DA’s Office said.

She was helping her parents move into her sister’s apartment at the time of the incident, the DA’s Office said.

Officers responded after they were contacted by the suspect’s sister, who told the suspect she needed to leave the room to get medications for her mother.

The standoff ended peacefully, about two hours after authorities arrived on the scene, the DA’s Office said.