Eagle man arrested after 8-hour standoff is ended by SWAT team. Here’s what happened
An 8-hour standoff in Eagle ended on Tuesday evening, according to the Ada County Sheriff’s Office, when a SWAT team entered the suspect’s apartment and apprehended him with the help of a police dog.
After a report of domestic battery was filed on Monday morning against 33-year-old Dustin Rosenbaum, Eagle police attempted to arrest him on Tuesday, according to Patrick Orr, Ada County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. (Eagle contracts with the Sheriff’s Office for its police force.)
On Monday morning, officers were met at the door of an apartment on South 2nd Street “by two people who said Rosenbaum threatened them with a pipe during an argument,” read a sheriff’s blog post published on Tuesday evening. “They also said Rosenbaum was inside, had a knife and possibly a gun, might be suicidal, and wouldn’t leave without a fight.”
The two people were taken to safety on Monday, the post said, after which police waited to see if Rosenbaum could be apprehended after leaving the apartment. But he did not leave, and the standoff began just after 9 a.m. Tuesday, when police attempted to get him to come out.
Shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, an Ada County SWAT team and a police dog entered the apartment. Rosenbaum was found in a bathroom, “holding a knife to himself and refus(ing) to go into custody. The K9 dog went in and bit him while a deputy fired and hit Rosenbaum with a less-lethal sponge round designed to incapacitate,” according to the blog post.
The post said Rosenbaum dropped the knife — which he did not threaten officers with — and was arrested.
“He was treated by paramedics and then taken to a local hospital for a medical exam,” according to the post.
Rosenbaum was charged with resisting arrest and a felony count of domestic assault in the presence of a child, according to the post.
Rosenbaum also had an existing warrant on a felony drug delivery charge and two failure-to-appear warrants stemming from different incidents, according to Ada County records.
Rosenbaum is still being held at the Ada County Jail, records showed Wednesday.
This story was originally published June 29, 2021 at 7:12 PM.
