Albuquerque -

Today at around 3:30PM, the Albuquerque Police Department tried to make contact with a male but he fled from officers near Central Ave and Louisiana Blvd NE. During a foot pursuit the suspect tried to get on the ART bus but then instead fled to a nearby mobile home park.

APD officers surrounded the mobile home park and the man was able to get onto the roof of Southwestern Minerals located at 7008 Central Ave. Police then surrounded the building and started making public address announcements for the man to come down and surrender peacefully. The man decided instead to endure the scorching hot pain of the businesses metal roof and he held out for at least a half hour more. For his last moments of freedom the man was seen smoking an unknown substance and trying to hide behind an air conditioner unit on the roof. Traffic on Central going both directions was shut down temporarily causing traffic congestion and chaos on surrounding streets. We observed several drugged out pedestrians who normally walk around the side streets almost get hit by the massive amounts of diverted traffic.

Albuquerque Fire Rescue was called to the scene to bring a ladder to help assist the man down from the roof.

Eventually, the man raised his hands while blowing smoke and peacefully climbed down the provided ladder and surrendered to police who were waiting on the ground.

We will update the story when we find out more information about pending charges from this incident.

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