Am I to conveniently ignore that there are lights and sirens outside my residence and people wearing police equipment with “police” prominently displaying, saying “Such and such police department we have a search warrant for the premises, we demand entry now.” And when they do make entry the have police issued shields and flashlights and the entry was probably pre-empted by a flashbang? Who else does those things? This whole gang posing as cops crap is being blown out of proportion.
I would get clear of any weapons, identify myself as law enforcement and instruct my family to do exactly what those officers say to the letter.
Why let the suspect of your investigation go anywhere? Give him a chance to flee, or warn others, or destroy evidence at other locations? That’s not better, that’s convenient for the suspect and it’s not meant to be convenient for the suspect.
Plenty of opportunity to arrest the guy on his way home. There’s one road into that community. With plenty of area to stop him with no danger to anyone though the cactus and coyotes might suffer. Unless the guy was carpooling to work at the mine which is not in a populated area.
As for lights and sirens the neighbor who was interviewed said that he heard gunshots and came outside. Not sirens. And he said nothing about lights. Maybe that was edited out of the interview. He definitely said that gunshots are what prompted him to come outside. (genius!) And the SWAT team members said to go back inside.