SAN DIEGO — San Diego Police have arrested a belligerent and armed man who made a scene at Donut Star, a Hillcrest doughnut shop, Friday and then refused to leave, prompting evacuations and a police standoff in the busy uptown district near Balboa Park.
The disturbance in the 600 block of West Washington Street was reported about 1:30 p.m., according to the San Diego Police Department.
When the disruptive man refused repeated orders to leave the business, officers evacuated it, cleared people out of the immediately surrounding area and called in crisis counselors to try to persuade the intruder to surrender.
Police believed the man was armed with a gun, a kitchen knife and, possibly, a larger cutting tool described as a sword, SDPD Officer Sarah Foster said.
At about 2:30 p.m., police called a SWAT team to the scene and closed a section of Washington Street as a precaution.