Home Burglary Suspect Arrested After Nearly 20-Hour Standoff In El Dorado County

RESCUE (CBS13) — A antheral was arrested implicit the play successful transportation to a location burglary successful the Rescue community, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office announced connected Monday.

Austin Scott Lee, 26, of Cameron Park, was arrested Saturday evening aft a astir 20-hour standoff wherever instrumentality enforcement attempting to interaction the fishy wrong the home, which was on Pine Hill Road.

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According to the sheriff’s office, the nonmigratory of the location arrived to find aggregate guns scattered connected the crushed adjacent the beforehand doorway and an chartless antheral watching TV. When the nonmigratory walked person to the beforehand door, they reportedly heard a azygous gunshot.

The nonmigratory moved distant from the location and called 9-1-1 for assistance.

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The sheriff’s bureau said deputies arrived wrong minutes and acceptable up a perimeter astir the residence. The guns that were scattered adjacent the beforehand doorway belonged to the nonmigratory and had been moved from a retention area.

Despite utilizing respective tactics and resources, deputies engaged successful the standoff for respective hours until the suspect, aboriginal identified arsenic Lee, surrendered without incident.

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Lee was booked into the region jailhouse wherever helium faces charges including residential burglary and shooting astatine an inhabited dwelling.

CBS13 Staff