Falls Man Identified Following Suicide Standoff
Brian Zarle, 40, of Cuyahoga Falls, was arrested Wednesday evening after threatening police and himself.
Brian Zarle, 40, of Cuyahoga Falls, has been identified as the man who embroiled himself in a suicide standoff with Falls police, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. The newspaper reports that sheriff’s deputies and U.S. Marshals from the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrived at Zarle’s door in the 300 block of Van Buren Avenue at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday to serve a felony warrant for intimidating a Summit County judge. The situation quickly unraveled when he refused to open the door and alluded to having weapons. Police cordoned off the neighborhood, called in their SWAT team and began negotiating with Zarle. During that time, Zarle could be heard through a bullhorn saying: "Either you guys take me or I'll take myself." "Only …
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jenn
5:42 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
and I went to radio shack and bought a mega phone and a tape recorder. I recorded messages from Martin Luther King, Borac Obama and myself and traveled through different parts of Akron playing my message, never once did I threaten anybody. At one point of my protest in down town Akron somebody called the Akron police department to make a noise report. The Captain of Akron police stopped at where … more ›