TOWN OF TWO RIVERS, WI (WHBL) – A violent argument over a debt resulted in a SWAT response Tuesday in Manitowoc County. In a news release, Sheriff Dan Hartwig reports that deputies were dispatched to a home to check out a disturbance involving a firearm on County Road B in the Town of Two Rivers at about 8:30 Tuesday morning.
Deputies were informed that a 40-year-old man from the Shoto area arrived at the residence, collided with an unoccupied vehicle in the driveway, and then demanded owed money from a 24-year-old man from Kewaunee. A weapon was reportedly displayed before he left, and deputies attempted to contact the suspect at his residence a few blocks away on Johnston Drive. When he refused to exit, the Manitowoc County SWAT team and Crisis Negotiators responded. The Shoto man was eventually negotiated out of his residence and taken into custody without further incident.
He is now in the Manitowoc County Jail facing charges of recklessly endangering safety, intentionally pointing a firearm at another individual and failure to comply with officers attempting to take him into custody.
Mishicot Ambulance, Michicot Police, Wisconsin Public Service and the Manitowoc County Highway Department also responded to the incident.
