Fort Worth SWAT team thought it was in standoff with teen in attic, but teen wasn’t there
For more than three hours Tuesday night, Fort Worth police SWAT team officers thought they were involved in a standoff with a teenage boy who had barricaded himself in the attic of a south Fort Worth house after he cut off an ankle monitor.
They later learned the teenager was not in the house, a police spokesman said.
The Fort Worth police SWAT team arrived outside the house in the 3900 block of Fox Trot Drive about 6:15 p.m. after other officers were called there about 3:30 p.m.
A person had called 911 to report that the teenager, who the caller said was involved in a June robbery, was going to the Fox Trot Drive house.
“Officers made the scene and determined that the subject was barricaded in the attic,” Officer Buddy Calzada, a Fort Worth police spokesman, wrote in an email.
Officers left the scene after they found the teen was not at the house.
This story was originally published July 21, 2020 at 9:24 PM.
