It took a SWAT team and a 12-hour stand-off to get a Georgia man out of a hotel room in metro Atlanta.
The incident started Wednesday afternoon at an extended stay hotel in Gwinnett County, Georgia when Marvin Fernandez, 39, refused to leave.
Fernandez had been staying at the Araamda Inn in Norcross, 39, and asked to return to his room to retrieve his belongings after the staff told him he was trespassing, police said.
But “as he entered the room,” Gwinnett police Cpl. Michele Pihera said, “he locked himself inside.”
Management at the hotel called 911.
A SWAT team arrived after Fernandez allegedly told police they would have to bust down the door to get him out and that he had a gun, according to WSB-TV.
The hotel was then evacuated.
SWAT officers sprayed tear gas into the room to successfully end the standoff, the news station reported.
No one was injured and the Araamda Inn resumed business as usual.
Fernandez faces theft of services and criminal trespass charges, police said.
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