A man arrested Wednesday after a nearly six-hour standoff with law enforcement was armed with a BB gun inside an “abandoned apartment-style building,” the Anchorage Police Department said.
Loi T. Olomua, 35, and another man arrived at the building on the 6200 block of Petersburg Street in South Anchorage in a Ford Explorer that was reported stolen earlier in the week, police wrote in an online update.
Officers were called to the building for a report of a potential burglary in progress at 1:16 p.m., police said. The department referred to the building as a residence in an initial statement.
“Upon arrival officers were informed that Olomua was armed with a handgun,” police wrote. “When patrol officers were unable to make contact with Olomua, SWAT and Crisis Negotiators responded to the scene.”
At about 3:30 p.m., the man with Olomua was able to leave the building unharmed, police said.
“After an arrest warrant was obtained for Olomua’s arrest, SWAT began making announcements to include less lethal and gas warnings,” police wrote.
Olomua was arrested without incident when he came out of the building just before 6 p.m., police said.
The weapon Olomua had been seen with was determined to be a black BB gun made to look like a real handgun, police wrote.
Olomua is facing charges of burglary, resisting arrest, vehicle theft, theft, assault and violating conditions of release.