Barricaded suspect arrested after police deploy gas in Spenard standoff

Update 6:30 a.m. Friday:

An armed man accused of threatening a woman at a Spenard apartment Thursday evening was taken into custody after an overnight standoff by Anchorage police, who deployed gas to subdue him.

Dennis Tetzloff, 49, was arrested on the 3900 block of Northwood Drive just before 1:30 a.m., according to police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro. He was unarmed and uninjured when he left the apartment.

Tetzloff has been charged with assault and resisting arrest. Police said he earlier assaulted a woman with whom he had been in a domestic relationship and threatened her with a weapon. She left the apartment before the standoff began.

Castro said in an email that APD's SWAT team was called to the standoff with Tetzloff, which began at about 6 p.m. Friday, after officers confirmed that "he was brandishing a rifle when he was inside the apartment."

Original story:

Anchorage police are asking residents of the 3900 block of Northwood Drive in Spenard to avoid the area as officers deal with an armed individual who is barricaded in an apartment.

Police and SWAT officers have responded to the apartment complex. The situation began just after 5 p.m. when police were called to a disturbance between a man and woman that involved a weapon.

More than a dozen police vehicles lined Carolina Drive, which connects to Northwood.

Officers donning green tactical gear and rifles stood at the ready along the road.

The "armed barricaded subject is refusing to peacefully surrender to police," according to a release from the Anchorage Police Department.

There are no other known occupants in the apartment and surrounding apartments have been evacuated as a safety precaution, police said.

Police have Northwood blocked off at Spenard and have asked residents to stay inside.