SWAT Team Intervenes, Adairsville Man Arrested Without Incident

ADAIRSVILLE, GA — A standoff following a domestic-dispute call Monday at an Adairsville apartment complex ended peacefully after Bartow County’s SWAT team arrived.

Jonathan Matthew Lira, 26, was arrested without incident at the Adairsville Arms Apartment on Joe Frank Harris Parkway, according to Coosa Valley News. He was charged with aggravated assault by strangulation, pointing or aiming a gun at another, and cruelty to children in the third degree.

Lira was arrested after officers from the Adairsville Police Department answered a domestic-dispute call at the apartment complex. When they arrived at the apartment, a neighbor told them that a women who lived there who said she’d been attacked had already left with her children.

When the woman returned to the apartment soon thereafter, she told police that her boyfriend Lira had tried to strangle her while one of her children watched. She said Lira then pointed a 9 mm handgun at her.

According to reports from Coosa Valley News and WBHF Community Radio, Lira refused to speak with police when they knocked on the apartment door. He did, however, tell his girlfriend on the phone that he had about 100 rounds of ammo and a Taurus 9 mm handgun he would use on the police if they tried to enter the apartment.

That’s when Adairsville Police Chief Mike Jones called the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team.

A few minutes after the SWAT team arrived, Lira came out and was arrested without incident. Once a warrant was obtained, police officers searched the apartment, where they found the ammunition and handgun under a mattress in the master bedroom.