BAKERSFIELD, CA. - An eight-hour SWAT standoff in the Oleander area ended overnight with the arrest of a man wanted in a Los Angeles-area murder.
Tthe BPD received a call for assistance from Los Angeles Police last week regarding 37-year-old Dennis Vigil.
A surveillance team spotted a man believed to be Vigil at a home in the 1700 block of Cherry Street yesterday evening.
SWAT members were called out and officers closed Cherry Street between Oleander and H Streets.
After several attempts to have Vigil surrender, officers broke down the front door and deployed tear gas.
They found Vigil in the attic and he was arrested and turned over to the LAPD.