etichy@post-journal.com Members of the Jamestown SWAT Team are pictured Monday outside a Cowden Place home. A wanted city man was jailed following a two-hour standoff.
P-J photo by Eric Tichy Jamestown Police Chief Timothy Jackson, left, and Capt. Robert Samuelson are pictured Monday.
P-J photo by Eric Tichy
Members of the Jamestown SWAT Team are pictured Monday outside a Cowden Place home. A wanted city man was jailed following a two-hour standoff.
P-J photo by Eric Tichy
A 34-year-old city man who had been on the Jamestown Police Department’s Top 10 most wanted list was taken into custody after barricading himself inside a Cowden Place home Monday afternoon.
Jamestown Man Arrested After Standoff on Southside
A Jamestown man on the wanted list was arrested after a stand-off on the City’s southside last night.
Jamestown Police say 34-year old
Silk Spencer barricaded himself in the basement of a house at 15 West Cowden Place when officers came to do a warrant check yesterday afternoon. Spencer told police he had a gun and was going to start shooting officers. After almost 2-hours of negotiations, Spencer surrendered peacefully. No weapons were found on him.
Spencer is in City Jail pending arraignment, where he faces multiple charges including felony assault from a previous stabbing incident and felony robbery. He also is on New York State Parole and faces a parole violation. New charges are expected.
etichy@post-journal.com
Jamestown Police Chief Timothy Jackson, left, and Capt. Robert Samuelson are pictured Monday outside a Cowden Place home after a man barricaded himself inside for about two hours. Silk E. Spencer was later taken into custody.
P-J photo by Eric Tichy
A 34-year-old city man who had been on the Jamestown Police Department’s Top 10 most wanted list was taken into custody after barricading himself inside a Cowden Place home Monday afternoon.
Silk E. Spencer surrendered to authorities after about two hours. No injuries were reported.
Police had received information that Spencer wanted on multiple felony warrants including assault from a prior stabbing incident, second-degree robbery and two counts of aggravated family offense was inside a home at 15 Cowden Place. When officers approached, the city man reportedly barricaded himself inside the basement and advised that he was “going to start shooting and that he was going to kill officers,” Jamestown