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Armed Robbery Suspect Surrenders After Standoff In Calabasas

CALABASAS (CBSLA.com) — An armed robbery suspect is in custody Monday after police say he assaulted his father and held police off in an overnight standoff.

John Marciniak, 26, was taken into custody about 11:25 p.m. Sunday, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokeswoman Deputy Crystal Hernandez said.

SWAT deputies fired tear gas into the home to get the suspect to come out, sheriff's Sgt. Fray Lupian said.

Ventura County sheriff's deputies were conducting surveillance on a home at 8:18 p.m. Sunday in the 5900 block of Las Virgenes Road before executing a warrant to arrest Marciniak in connection with an armed robbery at a gas station Thursday, Hernandez said.

While deputies watched the home, "the suspect assaulted his father during an altercation," Hernandez said. "The suspect's father left the location and contacted the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lost Hills Station."

Marciniak refused to leave the residence, prompting the SWAT team to mobilize for a barricaded suspect response, she said.

"As a precaution, evacuations were issued for those residents in the affected area," she said. They were allowed to return to their homes after Marciniak was taken into custody.

Marciniak was a suspect in last Thursday's armed robbery at a Mobile gas station at 942 South Westlake Blvd. in Thousand Oaks, said Ventura sheriff's Capt. Todd Inglis.

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