WATERVILLE (AP) — Police have arrested a 58-year-old central Maine man who reportedly had threatened to take his own life and sparked an eight-hour armed standoff with law enforcement in Waterville.
The Troy man was taken into custody around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday after he had been sitting in his pickup truck in the Waterville Police Department parking lot for eight hours.
Police Chief Joseph Massey says the standoff began around 6:15 p.m. Monday.
Multiple law enforcement agencies assisted Waterville police in dealing with the situation as well as securing a portion of nearby College Avenue for several hours into Tuesday morning.
Maine State Police negotiators spoke with the man for nearly two hours by cellphone before he agreed to surrender.
Massey says the man will likely be charged with creating a police standoff.
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