Monessen police file multiple charges against man who barricaded himself in home
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Monessen Police filed charges Thursday against a 47-year-old man who was involved in a 10-hour New Year’s Eve standoff at his home after city police attempted to serve him with a protection from abuse order.
Jason G. Johnson was taken into custody 12:45 a.m. Jan. 1 by the state police special emergency response team at his Westmoreland Drive home, where city police attempted to serve him with a PFA order filed about 3 p.m. Dec. 31.
Monessen police Officer Brian Mickens reported in court documents that Johnson refused to accept the order, barricaded himself inside the residence, throwing items from his home at responding officers and threatening to shoot “police and anyone else who would step on his property.”
The woman who sought the court order after saying she was threatened by Johnson, told officers that he was in possession of her 9mm handgun, which he had taken without her permission, according to Mickens.
After repeated attempts to negotiate his surrender failed, troopers entered the house after firing tear gas canisters inside and took Johnson into custody.
In the 48 hours prior to the standoff involving the PFA order, Mickens disclosed in court documents that he had been involved in six separate incidents involving Johnson allegedly threatening people at city businesses, walking in and out of traffic on Parente Boulevard, and disputes with neighbors and his girlfriend.
He is charged with receiving stolen property, theft and disorderly conduct and multiple counts of making terroristic threats, making terroristic threats that caused public inconvenience, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, cruelty to animals and harassment. Authorities said Johnson is awaiting arraignment pending release from an undisclosed mental health facility where he taken for treatment.
Mickens reported that, after Johnson was taken into custody, police confiscated the handgun and ammunition, small amounts of marijuana and drug paraphernalia they found inside the house. Police also discovered four small dogs in a basement bathroom that were without food and water.