Suspect barricades inside home after assault and property damage, Salem OR

Family Offense

Reported: 11/17/2025 07:51 PM

Earle Ave NE, Salem, OR 97301

Police are responding to a barricade situation on Earle Avenue NE. A suspect, who previously assaulted a victim and damaged her windows with a hammer, is believed to be inside a home. Officers plan to take the suspect into custody safely after attempts to get voluntary compliance fail.

Audio|Source: Salem Police Dispatch

01:55

Transcript:

00:00

997, Units on Earl, just to stand by for a quick re-breege here.

00:07

So we're treating this as a barricade.

00:12

We've got, we believe (name withheld) is inside.

00:14

We've got PC[1] for UW,

00:16

potential assault 2, assault 4, and medicine, right?

00:22

Just the other night, (name withheld) showed up at his victim's house that he assaulted and broke out her windows with a hammer.

00:29

Rick...

00:32

Our plan here is to safely take them into custody.

00:35

We're going to give some announcements in Spanish and English.

00:38

If we don't get any voluntary compliance, we'll pop the door with the keys here, give more canine announcements and fly with a drone.

00:46

We have a custody team in place here with canine and less legal and medical and medical.

00:50

And a brief.

00:52

All right,

00:56

everyone, can you just mark announcements in the chat? No.

01:00

It's coming.

01:04

Five-time four announcements can be heard on the three sides.

01:07

Five side. Multiple rounds of announcements with no response from inside.

01:17

All right, I'm going.

01:19

We're going to move this patrol car and then take a small team up and make a breach attempt at the door.

01:26

All right, so we need this here.

01:32

The keys are working.

01:33

Apparently the suspect inside is hung, sort of dead man and reinforced his barricade on the door.

01:39

So we're going to go just double check with the homeowner.

01:41

He's okay with us damaging his property and then go from there.

01:48

Here, 154, go ahead.

01:54

154, you're on 1, please go to 2.

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[1]

PC: Probable Cause

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Earle Ave NE, Salem, OR 97301

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