A male was taken into custody Friday after a domestic incident resulted in him barricading himself in an Antioch home for several hours according to the Contra Costa County Sheriffs office.
The incident began after a woman was taken to a hospital after a call around 5:19 pm. Her injuries were not released and the location of the incident was not provided.
According to the Contra Costa County Sheriffs Office, they tracked the male back to his home to Lilac Lane in the City of Antioch which is just west of the Contra Costa Event Park. Air support was provided as deputies worked to get the male to come out of the home.
Believing the suspect was at his Antioch home, with the assistance of other law enforcement agencies, deputies found the suspect hiding inside the house. He was eventually arrested without incident after being barricaded inside for nearly 4 hours. He was ultimately taken into custody by 11:30 pm.
The sheriffs office identified him as Vance Gattis, 45, who had a felony warrant for his arrest. He was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on charges that include assault with a deadly weapon, making criminal threats, resisting arrest, and drug possession.
Gattis was charged with the following according to the sheriffs office:
- 1F PC273.5
- 1F PC422(A)
- 1M HS11364
- 1F PC1203.2
- 1F PC245(A)(1)
- 1M PC273A
- 1M PC148(A)(1)
- 1F PC245(A)(4)
- 1M HS11377(A)
- 1F PC3455
Recent new articles involving Gattis:
- Sept. 2022 — the San Jose Mercury News reported that in April 2019, Purcy bit a man named Vance Gattis while Amiri was attempting to arrest Gattis during a traffic stop. He was questioned for not wearing a seat belt as a passenger in a car Amiri stopped for having tinted windows. The situation quickly escalated, as Gattis resisted the officers, who shocked him with Tasers, deployed Purcy to bite and apprehend him, and struck him with their fists and flashlights. Amiri reported hitting Gattis three or four times, records show.
- Officer Amiri was named in the Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Antioch Police After Racist Texts and Targeting
