Photo courtesy of Lake Region Law Enforcement Center.
A man was arrested on Monday, Sept. 23 by Devils Lake Police after a nearly 12-hour standoff. Joseph Gleason, 42, was arrested for burglary, terrorizing, and reckless endangerment after barricading himself inside a home and firing a gun, according to police. No one was injured nor did he target the police with the shots.
Police were contacted for a welfare check on Gleason at around 1:25 a.m. Gleason allegedly obtained the firearm from someone in the county. It is not known at this time where or from whom the firearm was obtained.
He barricaded himself inside a residence at the 300 block of 12th Street NW. Police responded at about 2 a.m.
At about 1:30 p.m. he came out on his own, police arrested him and the standoff came to an end.
