UPDATED: 2 Arrested After SWAT Team Swarms Wyandotte House
A SWAT team descended upon Electric Street near Walnut in Wyandotte on Tuesday morning.
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A man and a woman were arrested Tuesday morning after a SWAT team descended upon a house on Electric Street near Walnut in Wyandotte.
Wyandotte police assisted the Southgate Police Department with an armed robbery investigation on Tuesday, after a man was robbed early Tuesday by three suspects in Southgate, Wyandotte Police Chief Daniel Grant said.
Southgate police tied the people to a home in the 2200 block of Electric in Wyandotte, Grant said. Two of the three were inside the house.
The Downriver SWAT team was called in to assist. Officers swarmed the house after the two suspects barricaded themselves inside.
“Eventually we were able to persuade them to surrender, which they did peacefully," Grant said.
Arrested were a 21-year-old Wyandotte man and his girlfriend, a 26-year-old from Woodhaven, Grant said.
Police are still searching for the third person.
UPDATE: Police Searching for Third Person After Barricaded Situation in Wyandotte
Phyllis Rosa Cataldo
11:56 am on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Can you please verify if this was the robbery from a couple weeks ago or this morning as reported by wxyz.com?
Jason Alley
12:20 pm on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Hey, Phyllis. We have calls into the police and will be sure to update the story with new information when it's released. Thanks.
Phyllis Rosa Cataldo
12:47 pm on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
You really shouldn't post witness's comments without verifying with the police. I know for a fact now that it is not the same people. But good job worrying friends and family members. I'm not one to criticize the local media but I'm a little irritated about this.
Jason Alley
1:08 pm on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Hey, Phyllis. In a fluid situation with an active police scene, there are a lot of moving parts to a story. We juggle the information we have and opt to share that which we believe to be the most accurate at that time. Is it always perfect? Absolutely not. In this case, the information we reported is the information that we had at that time. And it came from more than one person. Should that information prove to be untrue, we'll always update the story to let readers know. We still have not had a chance to talk with police as you can imagine, they are quite busy at the moment. But once we do and the full story is available, we'll be sure to share it. Thanks for your comments.
georgine martin
4:31 pm on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Thanks Jason - I know you're doing the best you can and since I don't read the paper, I enjoy reading the Patch - what I don't read I can delete and it doesn't lay around the house waiting to jump into the trash can. Seems a lot of 2 cities' employees were used for an armed robbery - must be more to the story. Georgine
Roy Sobocinski
8:08 am on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Thanks Jason, you're doing fine. Keep up the good work.
Kellie Farrell
10:40 am on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Phyllis, calm down!
Phyllis Rosa Cataldo
10:09 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
Do you realize that unnecessary drama and worry DOES happen when something is incorrectly reported? I'm not criticizing Jason. I think he does a great job with the Patch and I enjoy reading it. I understand that in a situation like that you take what you can get, but an incorrect "fact" was released and yes, that's going to bring negative comments. I don't envy journalists one bit. They've got a very difficult job.
To the person who's comment was deleted but made it's way to my inbox: You+are = you're. Your= possession. A for effort though.
Jon Dufresne
1:42 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Another EPIC FAIL for wyandotte patch! Not only was this article just plain sloppy (see Phyllis's comments) but really bad reporting as well. Having grown up in the downriver area and now live in a large city out of state, media tends to treat what police tell them as gospel truth and do not follow-up or question what 'police sources' tell them.
This situation ended up being completely bungled by police and media and now who knows what really happened? Furthermore, Wyandotte Patch did NOT publish a follow-up reporting on how these 'suspects' were actually released the next day with no charges. See story in the News Herald: http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2012/10/24/news/doc508854fbc10a3813629970.txt
Now THAT is actually a story? Why did Police initiate a SWAT situation at this house if no one was charged? What was their evidence? Who did they think was involved? Who were the Police involved? When did Police discover they were wrong? Again, the point of this website is advertisement clicks, plain and simple. That's all patch.com's owner AOL cares about...aggressive advertisement and news is second-fiddle. Wyandotte Patch's investment in capital and quality and quantity of human resources certainly reflects that.