LOGAN — Police were able to resolve a standoff peacefully Monday afternoon that occurred in the parking lot of a downtown convenience store. The incident happened at the 7-Eleven, on the corner of 400 North and Main Street, just before 5 p.m.
Logan City Police Capt. Tyson Budge said David J. D’Addabbo pulled the truck he was driving into the parking lot, after officers noticed it had homemade license plates and began following it. When they attempted to make contact, the 63-year-old Nibley man barricaded himself inside the truck and said he would rather die than go to jail.
“After a couple hours of negotiations, he agreed that he would leave the vehicle and speak to the sheriff,” explained Budge. “We agreed that if he came out and let us pat him down, and make sure that he wasn’t armed that we would issue him the traffic citations, and let him go home with his family.”
Throughout the negotiations, police and SWAT team members had the vehicle surrounded. Westbound traffic on 400 North, between Main Street and 100 West was also temporarily blocked as a precaution.
D’Addabbo reportedly exited the truck at 6:30 p.m. without incident. He was allowed to leave with a member of his family, who came to the standoff to help with the negotiating process.
During the standoff, D’Addabbo said he had a weapon but never made any specific threats to anyone on the scene. Later officers found a handgun inside the truck.
Budge said D’Addabbo has a long history of making threats against the government. He recently wrote a letter stating he would defend himself until death to protect against government collusion. Throughout the standoff through, officers felt like the general public was not in any danger.
“He’s anti-government. He’s a conspiracy theorist. He believes that the government has wronged him, so he is angry with the police. He is angry with the government. He has never threatened the general public. His family stated they weren’t worried for their safety and that he wasn’t a violent individual. We have no reason to believe that he would harm them or anyone in the public, but we do have concerns with his dealings with our officers.”
Police report additional charges are pending the completion of an investigation.
This man has a disturbed history and needs some very careful mental health assessment and appropriate treatment.
This man needs some very careful and expert mental health assessment and treatment. His threats are particularly concerning in this environment of hate and conspiracy theories.
This was a Logan city ‘mall cop’ training exercise. Thank God the sheriff (the real law) was called in to rein in his want-to-be’s.
In America, you can’t be detained and arrested for failure to register your vehicle!
What a circus. DON’T BE SHEEPLE!!!!
Yes. You most certainly CAN be detained and/or arrested for not registering your vehicle. If you don’t have a license to drive, don’t produce said license, or fail to id yourself…yes, you CAN be arrested. If you are told to exit the car and refuse…you can be removed. (Pennsylvania v Mims)
Driving is a PRIVILEGE NOT a RIGHT.
Good to know this local tin foil hat loon is always armed. He’s a terrorist. It’s that simple.
This wackadoo doesn’t recognize the government? Funny he seems to have no trouble letting his wife work in it and no problem taking government handouts because he’s too lazy to work.
Really Don? They shut down a major intersection and multiple local businesses for a training exercise? Do you have a citations for that?
Also, from reading this article, he was only “detained” as far as he refused to cooperate with local law enforcement. He wasn’t arrested, nor is there any indication from this article that he would have been, apart from him saying he didn’t want to be. Although at this point he could have been detained for disorderly conduct, and probably a slew of other things as well.
Another point: it seems like you where trying to imply that local law enforcement (apart from the sheriff) is incompeten (even though it was only a training exercise? I’m confused). However, while I admit this is only speculation, it’s pretty reasonable to assume that the Sheriff (or “the real law”) would have been on the scene fairly early on, meaning that he would have just as much to blame (if not more so, being in a role of leadership) for the extended duration of the standoff.
lemme guess….
The black guy they pulled over later that night for a broken side marker light was admitted to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and then taken into custody. His car was impounded, his wife and children maced and he didn’t get a bail hearing until the next week.