Police: Man threatened to kill people in house before standoff
A man who barricaded himself in a Cedartown home after allegedly threatening to kill those inside was taken into custody after a standoff with police last week.
According to Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd:
A person inside the house, located on Forrest Lane in the Rolling Hills neighborhood, called
911 around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3 and said a man in the home had a shotgun and was threatening to kill them.
Polk County Police responded and were able to assist two of the occupants to escape through a window while another got out through the front door.
The man, identified as Joel Dale Sisson, then barricaded himself in the house, saying that he didn’t want to go back to jail. Dodd said he was related to the people who were in the house.
Officials requested the assistance of Rome-Floyd County SWAT, which arrived around 4 a.m. and began to make contact with Sisson to get him to surrender. When talks were unsuccessful, SWAT members fired tear gas into the home.
Sisson eventually came outside and was taken into custody without further incident around 5:30 a.m. He is charged with three counts of aggravated assault as well as single counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and obstruction of law enforcement officers.
Sisson remains in jail after his bond was denied.
Dodd said officers found only a shotgun inside the home and that Sisson is on parole but did not have any active warrants prior to Wednesday morning’s incident.
Dodd expressed his thanks to Rome-Floyd County SWAT for their assistance as well as the Cedartown Police Department and the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.