Fugitive Arrested After 3-Hour Standoff In NE Portland

PORTLAND, OR — Police on Wednesday night arrested the fugitive who forced a road closure and two facility lockdowns in Northeast Portland earlier in the day when he ran from police and barricaded himself in an apartment.

Gabriel Hector Sandoval-Juarez, 27, was taken to Multnomah County Jail on multiple warrants. One warrant comes from Clackamas County, where Sandoval-Juarez failed to appear for a court proceeding stemming from an attempted burglary arrest, and a second warrant is out of Multnomah County, where Sandoval-Juarez was arrested in August 2016 after crashing his car, tossing a loaded .38 revolver, and running from police.

Portland Police Bureau North Precinct officers were dispatched to conduct a welfare check in the 5500-block of Northeast 55th Avenue just before 11:30 a.m. April 18.

When he was approached by officers, Sandoval-Juarez ran and ended up barricading himself in an apartment at Villas de Mariposas North, 5205 N.E. Killingsworth St.

As a precaution, police shut down Northeast Killingsworth Street from Northeast 49th to Northeast 52nd avenues and placed both the Trinity Lutheran School and Albina Head Start facilities on lockdown while Portland police special teams searched for Sandoval-Juarez.

Portland police spokesman Sgt. Christopher Burley said officers had found Sandoval-Juarez in the barricaded apartment right around 2:30 p.m.

The standoff carried on for the next three hours before police took Sandoval-Juarez into custody just after 5:30 p.m.

Students from the locked-down facilities were able to reunite with their families following Sandoval-Juarez's arrest.

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