PORT ANGELES — A six-hour standoff ended peacefully around 4 p.m. Tuesday when a 46-year-old woman was arrested at her residence near the intersection of Orcas and Peabody streets in Port Angeles and booked for investigation of assault.
Police are withholding the woman’s name until she makes her initial appearance in court.
“Officers on the scene determined the female subject we later arrested threatened her husband with a large knife,” Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith said.
“That led to us trying to establish some kind of communication with her to come out of the house.”
The woman barricaded herself inside the house by locking doors, closing blinds and “putting up all sorts of barriers to prevent us from getting in,” Smith said.
The standoff ended when police broke a window to establish eye contact with the woman, and then entered the house through another opening.
“As darkness was setting in, we needed to maintain control of the scene,” Smith said.
Port Angeles Police Department officers were called to the house at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
There were eight Port Angeles police officers, four Clallam County sheriff’s deputies and one Sequim police officer at the scene, Smith said.
Police followed strict protocol for barricade situations, he said.
A state SWAT team and Port Angeles firefighters were on standby.
Officers on the graveyard shift were called in early, Smith said.
“We used the resources we had available to bring this to an end,” Smith said.
Traffic was blocked near the residence and pedestrian traffic was being directed by officers, Smith said.
