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Heavily Armed Man Surrenders After Police Standoff : Threat: He barricaded himself in Anaheim motor home for four hours after threatening to shoot his wife. He is taken into custody for psychiatric evaluation.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

A heavily armed man who police said threatened to shoot his wife and commit suicide barricaded himself in his motor home for more than four hours Wednesday before surrendering.

The 32-year-old was shirtless when he walked out of his mobile home at the Ponderosa Mobile Estates about 5:30 p.m. and was taken into custody for psychiatric evaluation, police said. There were no injuries, Anaheim Police Sgt. Craig Hunter said.

“That’s the way we like to see them end, with no one hurt--them or us,” Hunter said.

Police had not filed any charges against the man as of late Wednesday, but assault charges are likely, said Anaheim Police Officer Stephen Whalen.

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The afternoon standoff began when the man’s wife called police about 1:20 p.m. to report that she had been in an argument with her husband and that he threatened her with a gun, Whalen said.

When police arrived, they called the barricaded man from the mobile home park office, but he refused to come out to talk to officers, Whalen said.

His wife then told police that there were several rifles and pistols in the mobile home in the 2300 block of South Lewis Street.

Police evacuated about 25 people from surrounding trailers, as about 20 officers took positions in the area and the waiting began.

Negotiators called the man a second time about 4:45 p.m. and spoke to him for about 30 to 40 minutes, Whalen said. After he surrendered, police who entered the mobile home said they found several rifles and handguns as well as ammunition for both.

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