GRAND HAVEN TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Dec. 16, 2022) – One of the most distressing calls for law enforcement is when the men and women in blue or brown are asked to attend to a domestic situation. On Friday evening south of Grand Haven, such a call came from Ottawa County Central Dispatch to sheriff’s deputies, but fortunately for all involved, there were no injuries and a suspect was taken into custody.
According to Sheriff’s Lieutenant Nicholas Knott, that call came around 5:20 PM, as dispatchers said that there was a armed, barricaded man in a unit at the Courtesy Motel off of Lake Michigan Drive. Deputies arriving at the scene found that the suspect was armed with a knife and had hunkered down in the unit with another family member, making threats and refusing to allow that family member to leave the room.
Trained crisis negotiators were brought in, and they were able to first talk the suspect into allowing that family member to leave unharmed, and then surrender himself shortly thereafter without further incident. That yet-to-be-named suspect is awaiting arraignment in Grand Haven District Court on various charges.
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