{"id":535502,"date":"2026-03-20T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535502\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:50:07","slug":"person-in-custody-following-swat-situation-in-barrow-county-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535502\/","title":{"rendered":"Person in custody following SWAT situation in Barrow County \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">BARROW COUNTY, Ga.  \u2014 A SWAT investigation shut down a busy area in Barrow County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">NewsChopper 2 flew over a stretch of Highway 82 where multiple law enforcement patrol vehicles could be seen in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to the Barrow County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the incident happened along Highway 82 between Highway 211 and Ross Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials have not released details about what led to the SWAT response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Around 4 p.m., the BCSO said the operation is clear, and one person is in custody. The person whose age and identity were not released was taken to the Barrow County Detention Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The sheriff\u2019s office says more information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BARROW COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 A SWAT investigation shut down a busy area in Barrow County. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9246,240235,240230,4,450,76384,240231,451,240232,3729,62190,217703,3,240233,15791,452,453,240234,33927],"class_list":["post-535502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-athens","tag-barrow_county","tag-barrow_county_sheriffs_office","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-channel_2","tag-chopper_2","tag-headlines","tag-highway_82","tag-local","tag-matt","tag-matt_johnson","tag-news","tag-ross_road","tag-swat","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-winder","tag-wsbsyndication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}