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Last updated on Wednesday, August 26, 2015
(COLUMBUS) - A 20-year-old Columbus man was arrested after he allegedly tore up his parents’ home with a machete and threatening to kill his family members.
Columbus Police Sgt. Matt Harris says officers were called to a Pearl Street apartment at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday after a woman called reporting her son had threatened them with a machete.
She told police that she and a younger child couldn't escape out the front door, they barricaded themselves in a room and called for help.
Police heard someone yelling and the sounds of destruction going on inside the apartment when they arrived. They kicked the door open, after 20-year-old Devon Vandiver slammed the door closed when they knocked. Officers fired a Taser through the broken window on the door and subdued Vandiver. A large machete was found near where he was standing.
Vandiver was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital to be checked for a cut to his hand, and then to jail on charges of resisting law enforcement, illegal consumption, intimidation with a deadly weapon and criminal confinement with a deadly weapon.
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