Man Charged After Short Standoff At Woodbury Hotel: Police

WOODBURY, MN — A White Bear Lake man was arrested Thursday night after a standoff with officers at a hotel in Woodbury, according to the city’s police department.

An officer checked a license plate of a car parked around 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the Country Inn & Suites on Hudson Road and found felony warrants and a domestic abuse no-contact order were issued for the car’s owner, Darnell Davis, according to a news release from Woodbury Police Commander John Altman.

The felony warrants for Davis, 29, included two for fleeing a police officer and a drive-by shooting, police said.

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Officers learned Davis was staying at the hotel and talked to a woman who said he was in the bathroom of their room, according to the release.

Davis said he would not come out and claimed to have a child with him in the bathroom when police told him he was under arrest, Altman said.

He also told police had a gun and was suicidal, prompting officers to evacuate the room and the room next to it while a SWAT team from Washington County was called to the hotel, the release states.

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Woodbury police spent about 30 minutes urging Davis to exit the bathroom before the SWAT team and negotiators convinced him to surrender, Altman said.

Davis did not have a child or a gun with him in the bathroom during the short standoff, police said.

Davis was booked Thursday into the Washington County Jail on felony warrants and was also charged for violating a domestic abuse no-contact order, police said.

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