{"id":856227,"date":"2026-08-15T14:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856227\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:20:13","slug":"police-swarm-kingston-house-after-reported-violent-stand-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856227\/","title":{"rendered":"Police swarm Kingston house after reported violent stand-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 42-year-old man is in custody after a tense standoff at a Kingston property that shut down a street for hours on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

Police were called around 4:20pm after a member of the public reported a grey Nissan X-Trail driving dangerously on the Southern Outlet heading into Kingston.<\/p>\n

Officers located the vehicle in the driveway of a property on Hawthorn Drive around 4:30pm.<\/p>\n

The alleged driver was inside the house and no one else was home at the time.<\/p>\n

\"\"Neighbours reported hearing screaming and crying from the street. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n

Police including specialist resources were deployed to safely resolve the situation.<\/p>\n

The man was taken into custody just after 7pm.<\/p>\n

\"\"A witness described seeing a confrontation involving a knife in a driveway. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n

There were no injuries as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n

Neighbours reported hearing screaming, crying and banging coming from the property during the standoff.<\/p>\n

One resident said they saw someone driving erratically before being pepper sprayed by police.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw like three cars lined up blocking the road,\u201d one nearby resident said.<\/p>\n

\"\"The special operations group was called to the scene in Kingston. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then apparently they were screaming and then there was an ambulance here, then they left, then just police blocking off the road and sending up the drone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The resident said the scene had been at a standstill for around two hours.<\/p>\n

Police deployed drones and pushed bystanders and media back several hundred metres from the property.<\/p>\n

The police Special Operations Group attended the scene.<\/p>\n

\"\"Emergency services responded to a reported violent incident in Kingston. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n

Hawthorn Drive has now reopened and police have thanked residents for their patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 42-year-old man is in custody after a tense standoff at a Kingston property that shut down a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-856227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}