Amador County – Ione Police, Amador County Sheriff’s Department, a SWAT team and a negotiator helped to forge a peaceful solution to a four-hour standoff in Ione Monday, during which a man was barricaded inside a home with his two children.
Ione Police Chief Michael Johnson in a release Monday said the incident began at approximately 11 a.m. Monday, when the Ione Police responded to a residence in the 900 block of Shakeley Lane in Ione, regarding a felony warrant suspect.
Johnson dictated the release by phone, and it was prepared by Ione City Manager Kim Kerr.
Johnson said Ione police “determined that the suspect was in a residence,” and “set up a perimeter around the residence, and discovered through that the suspect had two children, an 11 year old and 12 year old, in the residence with him.”
Johnson said IPD “requested assistance from the Amador County Sheriff’s Office, Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) and negotiators.”
Johnson said that at “about 3 p.m., the suspect surrendered peacefully through negotiations and released the children unharmed.
The Ione Police Department booked the suspect, Jeffrey Phillip Largent, 37 years of age and from Sacramento, into the Amador County Jail in Jackson on felony warrants and other miscellaneous charges.
Ione Police and the Sheriff’s SWAT team arrested Largent on a felony warrant after the standoff, which reportedly started when he barricaded the entry to the house, after authorities arrived with a warrant.
KCRA 3 TV in Sacramento showed a video of Largent later surrendering to about six camouflage-clad SWAT team members, one with a K-9, and a uniformed officer, after the end of the standoff.
The broadcast at about 7:45 p.m. Monday showed Largent walking out of the home with his hands raised in the air. Largent walked in the driveway of the home, in front of an Ione Police car. Largent turned around, hands still raised, then placed his hands on his head, and authorities advanced and took him into custody.
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