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Police involved in West Omaha standoff

Posted at 10:42 PM, Nov 02, 2017
and last updated 2017-11-02 23:42:01-04

Omaha Police were involved in a standoff Thursday night.

Police were called to a home near 154th and Arbor in the Harvey Oaks neighborhood for a family disturbance around 8 p.m.. A man barricaded himself inside the home, and was possibly armed with a weapon.

The SWAT team and a hostage negotiator were called out to try to convince the man to surrender peacefully.