HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – A 40-year-old Holland man is in the Ottawa County Jail in the aftermath of a troubled Sunday morning.
Michael John Wolf was arraigned on Monday in Holland District Court on an resisting and obstructing charge stemming from a four-and-a-half-hour standoff with Holland Public Safety Officers, the department’s Special Enforcement Team and a K-9 unit at a house in the 300 block of Central Avenue near 12th Street, just south of Centennial Park. According to Holland Public Safety Captain Keith Mulder, officers were dispatched around 2:15 AM by a call to 911 on a report of a man with a shotgun threatening another person inside. There were reports that the man was “highly intoxicated.”
Responding officers saw the suspect and “made verbal contact with him,” said Mulder, “however, the suspect refused to cooperate.” Patient negotiators were eventually able to convince Wolf to surrender peacefully, and he was taken into custody without incident. Several “long guns” were seized, and there were no reports of any shots fired or of anyone wounded or injured.
Wolf, who had no prior criminal record in Ottawa County, was ordered held on 10 thousand dollars bond. If convicted of this charge, he could face up to two years in prison, along with a possible two thousand-dollar fine.
Mulder initially said that Wolf would face a felonious domestic assault charge, but no such count has been registered thus far against the accused. The case remains under investigation.
