PALMETTO, Fla. (WWSB) – A SWAT team has responded to a home in the Cypress Pond Estates in Palmetto, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
The team is attempting to communicate with a man inside the house, a sheriff’s office spokesman told ABC7. Residents of the neighborhood off Ellenton Gillette Road say streets are blocked off and they have not been allowed to enter since about 3:30 p.m.
The man has a warrant for violating probation on a prior domestic battery charge, and no other people are inside the house, the sheriff’s office said.
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