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Dec 1, 2008 11:55 am US/Pacific

Lengthy Armed Standoff Ends In Redwood City

CBS 5 CrimeWatch

REDWOOD CITY (BCN) ―

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Neighbors were inconvenienced and deputies exhausted, but the San Mateo County Sheriff's office is pleased with the outcome of a marathon standoff in unincorporated Redwood City that ended early Monday morning.

The standoff began around 11 p.m. Saturday when the sheriff's office received a 911 call from the parents of 29-year-old Mario Daniel Moreno saying their son was behaving bizarrely and had armed himself with a shotgun.

Sheriff's Lt. Ray Lunny said Moreno lives with his parents at a home in the 400 block of Fourth Avenue in the North Fair Oaks neighborhood.

He said the parents left the home after Moreno began acting strangely, although he had not threatened them.

Authorities surrounded the home and evacuated neighbors, then made contact with Moreno by phone, Lunny said. Negotiations continued Sunday and stretched into early Monday morning, when Moreno finally exited the home at about 6:25 a.m.

Lunny said the negotiations were carried out via phone and over a loudspeaker. He said sheriff's officials believed it was wiser to negotiate than to try to enter the home.

"We didn't want to do that; we didn't want to exacerbate the problem," Lunny said.

Moreno was taken to a hospital for evaluation and has been placed on a 72-hour hold. He has not been arrested, Lunny said.

A search of the home yielded the shotgun and narcotics.