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To: DMaA who wrote (21212)	2/6/2001 2:06:59 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

Yeah it's not looking good, my alerts this A.M. say INSP is laying off 250 (21%) of it's employees, but if that includes SI Bob it sure looks gloomy for us on SI.

To: DMaA who wrote (21212)	2/6/2001 6:51:54 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Tragic, IMO. The water is swirling...

To: DMaA who wrote (21212)	2/8/2001 3:43:30 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

Ya send your kid to college and who moves in a few doors down. It gets a bit nerving when you see a newscast and you see your kids apt. behind the reporter....... ____________________________________________________________ Standoff enters Day 3 By Matt Leedy The Fresno Bee (Published February 8, 2001) Police from across the central San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles County this morning continued Fresno's longest standoff with an armed fugitive inside a northeast apartment complex. The fugitive, identified in communications between officers at the scene and in radio transmissions as Argimiro Hernandez Garcia, 31, refused to surrender. He was being sought on charges of robbery, burglary, vehicle theft and felony evading when the standoff began Tuesday morning. The siege slowed to a stalemate after police learned that Hernandez Garcia could have another person with him in the Fresno Square apartments at Cedar and Rialto avenues. Police said they did not know whether the second person was an accomplice of the wanted man or an innocent victim. "We're going to be super-cautious and careful that we don't put anyone at risk," Lt. John Fries said. "It becomes particularly risky when we know someone else is in there." Late Wednesday night, SWAT officers from the Fresno County Sheriff's Department took over the vigil from the Fresno Police SWAT team. The confrontation began about 11 a.m. Tuesday when members of a state violent-crime task force tried to arrest Hernandez Garcia near Gettysburg Avenue and 11th Street. He fled in a Ford Explorer to Cedar and Rialto, where he hit a patrol car, flipping his vehicle onto its side. Hernandez Garcia jumped from the Explorer, fired at officers and ran to the Fresno Square complex. Officers returned fire. Nobody was injured. Officers pursued but lost sight of Hernandez Garcia near the center of the complex. They heard a door being kicked open and quickly surrounded the condominium. Los Angeles County deputies arrived Wednesday afternoon, bringing with them a surveillance robot and providing relief for local officers. Several "flash bang" explosives were thrown into the apartment shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday. Police continued using the distraction devices, which make a loud noise and bright flash, throughout the evening while they investigated the apartment. Police believe the fugitive has soft body armor and two guns and that he has been using methamphetamine. Officers said they would wait for a peaceful surrender rather than risk charging into the apartment. Negotiators talked to Hernandez Garcia on a cellular phone Wednesday morning and later that afternoon but were unable to coax the man from the apartment. "They did talk to him, but he was unwilling to come out," Fries said. "He shows no sign of cooperation. Before this incident, he told people he wouldn't be taken alive; he doesn't want to go to prison." Late Wednesday, Fries said officers believed Hernandez Garcia was moving between at least two apartments in the complex through a common attic. Officers also reported hearing loud noises in one bedroom occupied by the fugitive that sounded as though furniture was being moved about. "We have time on our side," Fresno police spokesman Gil Hernandez said. "We are in no hurry. We just want to get him out and get him out safely." Blanca Aguirre, her mother and two brothers live in the apartment the fugitive occupies. Aguirre said she does not know the man and was shocked when her home became the setting for a police standoff. "I can't believe it's happening, especially here in Fresno," Ag-uirre said. "You see it in the movies, but you don't expect it here." Dan Subers returned from his job as a farm laborer Tuesday afternoon to find his apartment surrounded by police and patrol cars. Subers' sister, Dieng Nguyen, was in the apartment with a friend, Brian Gille. The armed suspect was in a neighboring apartment. Subers slept in his car Tuesday night. He waited for the ordeal to end from a vacant lot across the complex from Cedar Avenue. His sister and friend slept on the floor Tuesday night and crouched below windows Wednesday. They were afraid to stand, turn on the lights or even move, Subers said. "I worry about them," Subers said. "I have to wait until they get them out or they get the bad guy away." Before the phone lines into the complex were disconnected, Subers talked to his sister and friend from a cellular phone. "They don't say much," Subers said. "They do what I tell them to do. I just tell them to stay quiet and calm and stay on the floor." SWAT teams from the Clovis Police Department, Fresno County and Los Angeles County sheriff's departments relieved city police who staked out the complex beginning at 12:30 p.m. "They have it sealed off so he's not going anywhere," Fries said. "He's as good as in custody. We don't have the handcuffs on him, but he's not going anywhere." ____________________________________________________________ 95 officers on scene, 48 canisters of tear gas sent into the apt; over a dozen flash bombs and the bomb squads robot goes in and hears the guy talking and coughing.