Vancouver police: Standoff ends with no evidence of crime
Detectives are investigating whether false reporting charges are appropriate after a woman called 911 to report a man had threatened her and two others with a knife, prompting heavy police response to an apartment complex in Vancouver’s Fourth Plain Village neighborhood Saturday morning . Police swarmed the Cedar Lanes Apartments , 3205 E. 33rd St., just before 9 a.m. after a woman called 911 and told dispatchers that a man staying in the apartment threatened her and others with a knife, Vancouver Police Department spokeswoman Kim Kapp said. When responding officers arrived , a woman exited the apartment, but police were told that the suspect remained inside with two other people, a male and a female, all of whom know each other, Kapp said. The people who were supposedly inside did not come out and a standoff ensued, with police treating the incident as a potential hostage situation . Nearby residents were evacuated and those trying to enter the property were turned away for mor...