SWAT team used to capture armed man, rescue residents
Arlington police used a SWAT team Friday to rescue people trapped inside a rooming house after a man threatened police with a knife and barricaded himself inside the rooming house where he lives, Arlington police said.
Arlington Police Chief Frederick Ryan said his officers were called to Silk Street around 4 a.m. to investigate a disturbance in the neighborhood and were immediately confronted by a man armed with a knife.
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