{"id":54056,"date":"2022-07-18T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54056"},"modified":"2022-07-18T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:24:20","slug":"lcso-says-the-suspect-tried-to-ambush-them-in-a-lehigh-acres-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/07\/lcso-says-the-suspect-tried-to-ambush-them-in-a-lehigh-acres-home\/","title":{"rendered":"LCSO says the suspect tried to ambush them in a Lehigh Acres home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office says a man in Lehigh Acres tried to ambush them after barricading himself in a Lehigh Acres home on Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2-1.png 268w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2-1-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office says its SWAT team was attempting to take a man into custody on multiple felony warrants, but the man had barricaded himself inside his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies say the man had blocked off a narrow staircase with a steel car door with car tires stacked behind it and an AR-15 pointed down the stairs. Deputies say the man also had 300 rounds of ammunition loaded into multiple magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the man was ready for a fight and was wearing body armor and a gas mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies say the man\u2019s family warned them that he was willing to shoot anyone and knew the deputies were coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office says the deputies that responded used all their training to reach a peaceful result. They say the man was taken into custody after several hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office says it will be providing an update on the case at 6 p.m. on Monday on their Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office says a man in Lehigh Acres tried to ambush them after barricading himself in a Lehigh Acres home on Thursday night. The sheriff\u2019s office says&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54058,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54056\/revisions\/54058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}