A 33-year-old man suspected of engaging in an hourslong standoff with sheriff’s deputies trying to serve a search warrant at a Temecula property was behind bars Friday.
Rogelio Ochoa of Temecula was arrested and booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta Wednesday night for outstanding felony warrants.
Ochoa is being held on $60,000 bail.
According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Jesse Maldonado, about 4 p.m. Wednesday, deputies went to a house in the 31000 block of Huron Street, just west of Pechanga Parkway, to serve the suspect with warrants connected to a stolen property case.
“Upon arrival, deputies made announcements at the front of the residence,” Maldonado said. “Four individuals exited the residence and were detained without incident. However, Ochoa refused to comply and exit the residence.”
Sheriff’s SWAT personnel were summoned and took up positions outside the home, while a crisis negotiator contacted Ochoa to talk him into surrendering peacefully, the sergeant said.
He said that a two-block section of Pechanga Parkway was shut down as a precaution during the standoff.
Roughly seven hours later, Ochoa walked out of the house and surrendered without further incident. He was not armed, and there was no indication that weaponry was seized from the property.
No one was injured.
Background information on the suspect was unavailable.