Hours-long standoff with teen ends peacefully at Turlock-area center for troubled youth
For three and a half hours Friday, Stanislaus County sheriff’s deputies were in a standoff with a 17-year-old boy at a residential facility for youth with behavioral issues south of Turlock.
The incident started around 12:30 p.m. at Aspiranet’s Excell Center on Youngstown Road. Lt. Tom Letras said the teen barricaded himself inside one of the residential areas and began vandalizing it.
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