Standoff ends peacefully after 10 hours in Jamestown with arrest, minor child is safe

11-hour standoff in Jamestown ends with child safe, suspect jailed

JAMESTOWN — Authorities in Jamestown responded to a standoff on Wednesday, June 18, that lasted about 11 hours and involved a 2-year-old child, forcing a lockdown at a mobile home park. Police were called to a home at 1818 Western Park Village just before 2 a.m. after receiving a report that a woman inside was being threatened by a man. Officers say the suspect, 30-year-old Jacob Schmitt, allegedly threatened to kill the woman and was reportedly…

Jamestown Man Arrested Following Stand-Off

JAMESTOWN, N.D. (JPD) – A nearly 11 hour stand-off is over after a man who barricaded himself inside a room of a residence in Jamestown was taken into custody on Wednesday, June 18th. A shelter in place for nearby residents has been lifted. The following is a news release from Jamestown Police Department. On June 18, 2025, at approximately 01:54 hrs., Jamestown Police were dispatched to a residence inside Western Park Village, on a report the r…

Standoff ends peacefully after 10 hours in Jamestown with arrest, minor child is safe

JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — A man has been arrested after barricading himself and a two-year-old child in a home in Jamestown for 10 hours. Police say they responded to a domestic violence incident in Western Park Village around 2 a.m. They say the man made terroristic threats toward another person and refused contact from officers. They also believed he had access to firearms. After hours of negotiating with the man, SWAT was called in and the man…

UPDATE: Man who was barricaded inside Jamestown home is in custody

UPDATE – Thirteen hours after police were sent to a Jamestown home on a domestic violence call, a man comes out of the home he was barricaded in and is in custody. The shelter in place order in the area of the Western Park Village mobile home park has been lifted. Valley News Live reports 10 minutes before the man came out of the home, the two-year-old child who was with him was removed from the home and taken into an ambulance.   UPDATE – James…

UPDATED: Man involved in standoff in Jamestown arrested, child safe

JAMESTOWN — An hours-long standoff on Wednesday, June 18, at Western Park Village in Jamestown ended after the James Valley Special Operations Team successfully entered the residence, removed a 2-year-old child and arrested a 30-year-old man, according to Maj. Justin Blinsky, assistant chief of police for the city of Jamestown. Jacob Lee Schmitt, of Jamestown, was arrested on suspicion of terrorizing. Schmitt is in the Stutsman County Correction…