JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man is in jail following a standoff with SWAT in a Northside Jacksonville neighborhood Monday night. Jacksonville police were monitoring a man who was wanted on active felony warrants in Sarasota County. The suspect, Joseph Hernandez, 38, was tracked to a home in the 5400 block of Minosa Court in the Magnolia Gardens neighborhood, a JSO incident report states.
Officers spotted Hernandez driving a vehicle on W. 45th Street and Moncrief Road and followed him to the home. "A traffic stop was not immediately conducted due to Hernandez making statements that he would flee from law enforcement immediately and a plan was being set up to covertly watch the vehicle until he could be safely taken into custody," the incident report states.
Hernandez walked into the home and exited to retrieve a pizza he had ordered, the report states. "At that moment, marked patrol cars with the CPRU moved in, in an attempt to take Hernandez into custody. Upon sight of the marked cars and tactically uniformed officers, he fled into the residence," the report states.
Hernandez refused officers' orders to exit the home and SWAT was called in after about four hours, the report states. After about five hours SWAT deployed a drone and dropped gas into the residence and Hernandez continued refusing orders to vacate.
Police then sent in JSO K9 Zeke and Hernandez was taken into custody, the report states.
Hernandez was booked on the out-of-county warrants and additionally charged with criminal mischief, resisting an officer without violence, causing bodily harm to police dog, and trespassing.
