Attacked By Neighbor of 20 Years

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254. WOW! Glad you're okay. Really scary behavior on her part. Here's something similar that happened

near Syracuse, NY on Saturday.

https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/police-source-parts-of-e-genesee-street-in-dewitt-closed-due-to-barricaded-person/

UPDATE: On Saturday around 9:20 a.m., DeWitt Police officers were dispatched to 6840 E. Genesee St. for a menacing complaint.

It was reported that a male, who was later identified as Jonathan Almonte, 33, of DeWitt, had threatened a neighbor with a machete.

When officers arrived on the scene, Almonte barricaded himself in the upstairs portion of the apartment building, according to police. That is where Almonte and the victim’s apartments are both located.

The victim was able to safely get out of the building, according to police.

A crisis negotiator with the department communicated with Almonte for around three hours. During this time, Almonte had entered into the victim’s unoccupied apartment and an adjacent storage room and started throwing stuff out of a second story window.

He had also threatened to burn the building down, according to police.

Other than Almonte, everyone in the building and neighboring buildings were evacuated. A short time later, Almonte set a fire inside of the building and caused damage.

Around 12:15 p.m., Almonte left the apartment building holding a machete. Officers ordered for him to drop it numerous times but he allegedly refused and started to run at officers.

Officers then deployed tasers to try and stop Almonte, but that was unsuccessful.

A DeWitt officer discharged one round from their firearm, but they did not hit Almonte. Almonte then allegedly threw the machete in the direction of multiple officers, nearly hitting them. Officers were then able to take him into custody without further incident.

While investigating, it was found that there was possibly bomb making materials in the apartment building. The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Unit responded and cleared the scene.

They did not find any bomb making materials in the apartment.

Almonte has been charged with the following:

Arson in the third degree
Burglary in the second degree
Criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree
Menacing in the second degree
Criminal mischief in the fourth degree
Attempted aggravated assault on a police officer
Resisting arrest
Harassment in the second degree
Almonte will be kept at the Onondaga County Justice Center while awaiting arraignment.

According to police, no one was injured during the incident.

The name of the officer who discharged their firearm will not be released for 72 hours, due to DeWitt Police Department policy.

On the Syracuse.com (pay to view) site, more information is included about the background of this guy:

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2020/11/girlfriend-dewitt-man-in-standoff-across-from-wegmans-paranoid-and-spike-addict.html

His girlfriend, Carrie Midlar, said in a police statement that she believed Almonte was planning to use drugs that day. She’d seen a destructive pattern recently in their three-year relationship.

“Recently, Jonathan has fallen into a pattern of spike use (typically defined as synthetic marijuana), which leads to mental health issues, and then he stops using spike, which intensifies the mental health problems until it is out of his system,” Midlar told police.

And here's the money quote:

That concerned his girlfriend because “Jonathan watches a lot of YouTube videos, including a lot of conspiracy theories and paranoid nonsense, he has a lot of stuff he doesn’t want me to go near or touch, and he has tools, so I worried he might have made a bomb or something . . .” Midlar told police.