NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — Police and SWAT surrounded a New Kensington home Sunday morning.
A Westmoreland County 911 official tells Channel 11 that police responded to a home on Leishman Avenue and Catalpa Street after 9:30 a.m.
A Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson said the call came in about a person being held against their will.
Ultimately, the victim left the home on their own. They were injured but didn’t need treatment, the spokesperson said.
New Kensington police applied for and executed a search warrant on the home. SWAT was called because of possible weapons inside.
A Channel 11 crew captured the large police presence around the home. Investigators spent nearly half an hour hailing someone inside to come out of the home with their hands up.
Police put a drone up in the air before SWAT entered the home around 12:30 p.m. with a flash bang. The SWAT team came back outside soon after without anyone who was already in the home. SWAT crews left by 1:30 p.m.
The spokesperson said the situation was contained and posed no threat to the public.
One male will face charges in the incident.
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