UPDATE: Missing AR-15 Found After Man’s Arrest
A Levittown man is in custody after a domestic dispute late Wednesday night where he allegedly threatened family members with an AR-15 rifle, which led to a tactical team response.
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Bristol Township police were dispatched at 10:20 p.m. to the unit block of Fawn Lane for a report of a domestic dispute.
After they pulled up at the scene, officers made contact with family members who had fled the residence and reported being threatened by the suspect, who was armed with a rifle, police said.
Responding officers immediately established a perimeter and issued a shelter-in-place order for the area, police said.
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The Bucks County South Emergency Response Team, which is made up of officers from Bensalem Township, Bristol Borough, Bristol Township, Falls Township, and other municipalities, was activated and called to the scene.
The tactical team staged at Brookwood Elementary School before surrounding the home on Fawn Lane.
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While police were on-site, two 9-1-1 calls were reported to have been received stating a man walking down the street with an AR-style rifle near the Kenwood section of Levittown.
Officers were unable to locate the man, but eventually made contact with him outside the containment perimeter, police said.
According to law enforcement officials and court papers, the 61-year-old man was unarmed and taken into custody without incident.
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A K-9 unit was deployed to search for the firearm but was unsuccessful in locating it.
The man was transported to police headquarters and later charged with terroristic threats. He was preliminarily arraigned before a district judge at 4 a.m. Thursday and sent to Bucks County Correctional Facility on $200,000 bail.
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Bristol Township police are asking residents in the Farmbrook, Greenbrook, and Kenwood sections to check their properties for the firearm. The department asks anyone who finds the weapon to contact 9-1-1 immediately and not to handle it.
The shelter-in-place order was lifted early Thursday morning.
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