Standoff

Twenty-one pipe bombs, dozens of rifles, tens of thousands of bullets, and cans of gunpowder shrouded in strips of nails -- tax evader Ed Brown said it was all to scare away U.S. marshals, not harm them, if they came to his fortified Plainfield home to arrest him. A jury didn't believe him. It convicted Brown and his wife, Elaine, both in their 60s, of amassing an arsenal to kill agents during a nine-month standoff at their rural compound in 2007....

A burglary suspect who barricaded himself inside a house in Winnetka was arrested Saturday after SWAT team officers disabled him with tear gas and then stormed in, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The 11-hour standoff ended about 2:35 a.m. when police arrested Michael Krieger, 32. Police said he had been wanted in connection with a string of auto burglaries. Police said the incident began Friday afternoon in the 20600 block of Saticoy Street when Krieger spotted officers in the area and fled into the house.

Police found the bodies Friday of two elderly people inside a house where a gunman had barricaded himself and fired at three officers. Montclair Police Capt. Chris Weiske said Adrian Marvin Bonadie, 33, whose parents owned the house, surrendered after a six-hour standoff. Weiske said Bonadie would be charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder of a police officer. Two of the officers suffered minor wounds. "He was displaying symptoms of mental illness," Weiske said of Bonadie.

Police on Monday identified the officer wounded late Saturday by a suspect who was then killed. Eric Rimat, 36, was recovering at Western Medical Center-Santa Ana after surgery to a shattered left elbow, Lt. Bob Chavez said. "He required some pins in the elbow and his small artery had to be sewn up, but he's getting enough blood to his hand from the main artery," Chavez said. "They won't know about nerve damage for a while, but he has feeling in all his fingers, although two of them are numb."

A Long Beach man suspected of shooting a code enforcement inspector before barricading himself in his house was taken into custody Thursday after a seven-hour standoff. The shooting occurred around 8 a.m. as code enforcement officers arrived with police backup to serve an inspection warrant at what was described as a "blighted residence" in the 6100 block of John Avenue, Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell said. "This residence has been a problem for code enforcement over the past few years," he said.

Police early Thursday killed a man suspected in a shooting rampage that left four people and an FBI dog dead in two small upstate New York towns.  Kurt Myers, 64, was shot hours after holing up in a building in tiny Herkimer, N.Y., population about 7,000, when police entered the building's basement. Earlier, they had sent the FBI dog into the building to search for the suspect. "He was waiting for us," trooper Jack Keller told reporters. After Myers shot and killed the dog, officers moved in. "Our teams returned fire and the suspect gets shot," said Keller.

A deputy sheriff accused of storming into the bank where his estranged wife works and fatally shooting a teller surrendered Friday, freeing his wife and another hostage more than 24 hours after the standoff began. Chad Louviere, 24, was still wearing his uniform when officers set off a concussion grenade to distract him and tackled him as he escorted the two hostages out the back door. He did not struggle.

A man suspected in a series of rush-hour shootings near Dallas is a former Utah state trooper wanted on burglary and robbery warrants who apparently shot himself after a standoff with police, authorities said. Brian Smith, 37, killed at least one of the victims in Monday's shootings, Dallas Police Lt. Craig Miller said. Investigators tied Smith to a killing in Dallas by matching the bullets found at the standoff, he said. Two people were shot and killed and another person was injured by broken glass in four shootings along or near a Dallas-area highway Monday evening.