PAUMA VALLEY (CNS) - A suspect in an alleged assault with a deadly weapon at a home in a rural neighborhood near Palomar Mountain refused to surrender to deputies Tuesday, prompting an outdoor standoff that stretched from late morning into the mid-afternoon.
The alleged violence in the 500 block of Amago Road on the La Jolla Indian Reservation was reported shortly before 9 a.m., according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
A sheriff's department press release sent Wednesday said the suspect, Joseph Raymond Amago, had stabbed his uncle with a large combat knife.
Following the purported crime, the suspect fled from his home into a nearby field, where patrol personnel confronted him, Lt. Nanette McMasters said.
After the man refused repeated orders to surrender, the deputies called in a SWAT team.
The release says the standoff lasted six hours. The sheriff's crisis negotiations team and special enforcement detail both responded to the scene and negotiated with Amago for five hours.
Amago peacefully surrendered and was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and displaying a weapon in a threatening manner, the sheriff's department says. He was booked into the Vista Detention Facility.
