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Bond Set For SWAT Standoff Suspect
April 5, 2011
Bond has been set a $51,000 for the man involved in an eight-hour standoff with deputies last week in Cantonment.
Brett Justin Salter remained in the Escambia County Jail early Tuesday morning, charged with battery, kidnapping, criminal mischief, burglary and larceny.
The standoff began about 3:30 last Thursday morning when a 22-year old female called 911 from a Circle K in the 2200 block of Highway 29 to report that she was a battery victim. She told deputies that she went to Salter’s home to get her puppy. That’s when, she reported, Salter choked her, slammed her into a wall and attacked her vehicle as she tried to leave the home.
Deputies responded to the suspect’s home on Pauline Street, where Salter refused to exit the resident. The SWAT team was called to the residence about 7 a.m. During a five-hour standoff with SWAT, multiple rounds of tear gas where fired into the home.
With the video feed from a robot named WALL-E, deputies were able to determine that Salter was not on the ground level of the home. They determined that he was hiding in the attic. Salter quickly surrendered after tear gas was fired into the attic.
For a photo gallery from the scene, click here.
Pictured top and bottom: A Cantonment man refused to exit his Pauline Street home for over eight hours last Thursday, eventually surrendering after SWAT fire tear gas into his attack hiding place. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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5 Responses to “Bond Set For SWAT Standoff Suspect”
yeah like she went to his house at 3:30 in the am…something was already wrong with this story!! She went there..she knows him and should not have gone there looking for trouble not that it excuses what he did,i just have a problem with the whole story she told..whats true ,whats not? What part is vendictive? Come on a puppy at that time of morning, Really!! Why not get her for trespassing or something..maybe unlawfully entering someone’s home.Maybe he thought she was an intruder at 3:30 in the morning..Wow they act like he went out kidnapped her and took her there..This is ludicrous!! Then they act like she was still there!! wow!!..lol…Have to admit it looked like a real kidnapping or hostage situation by the time the pics got out! we’ve seen less action at bank robberies…or tom thumb robberies..like the 1 i was in when it was robbed!!They seemed like it was not that big a deal!!i had children in that store with me but was never even questioned or mentioned about the children in the store at the time..that was my biggest concern those babies in the store with me..
>>So why didn’t they post the name of the victim too?
We don’t , per our policy, identify victims of crimes in most circumstances.
So why didn’t they post the name of the victim too?
Her statement makes no sence. I went to school with B.J. and I never would have thought I would see his face plastered all over the news.
How idiotic that anyone would be out at 3 a.m. and wanting to get their puppy.