It took a SWAT team, but a 26-year-old Mesa man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of domestic violence.

SWAT officers swarmed a Gilbert home Sunday after a man, possibly armed with a gun, threatened two of his family members.

They operate special weapons, negotiate hostage situations and use explosives. They shoot with precision and are one of the most highly-trained units at the sheriff’s office.

January 11, 2005

Deputy Sean Pearce lay in the east Mesa street with a bullet in his gut. His head rested on the knee of deputy Lew Argetsinger, a fellow member of the Maricopa County sheriff’s SWAT team whose right hand had been shattered by a bullet from the same gunman’s pistol.

The Maricopa County sheriff’s SWAT team was abruptly disbanded shortly after two of its officers were shot serving a high-risk search warrant in a murder investigation, the Tribune has learned.

The suspect who gunned down two Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies in the East Valley last month should feel the full weight of the law. Nothing should mitigate the culpability of those who pull the trigger on law enforcement officers performing their public-safety duties.

October 16, 2004

A Mesa SWAT unit arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of stealing his mom’s car, $20 and then ramming a police car Monday.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office could lose out on all or part of a $350,000 federal Homeland Security grant because its SWAT team has been disbanded, according to state and Valley grant administrators.

January 27, 2005

A man wanted on numerous outstanding warrants was arrested after a brief standoff with Mesa SWAT officers on Saturday when he refused to come out of his home.

The athletic tape was just for show, but Kevin Cron figured any illusion was better than none.

Mesa has settled a pay dispute involving about two dozen SWAT officers who claimed they were owed $3,000 apiece in back pay.

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban have fled the Pakistani army's advance on the main town in the Swat Valley, delivering the military a strategic prize in its offensive against militants in the country's northwest, commanders said Saturday.

MINGORA, Pakistan - Pakistan has agreed to an open-ended cease-fire with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley, government officials said Saturday, extending a truce as the country pursues broader, much-criticized talks aimed at calming a large swathe of its northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.

After a 90 minute standoff with a Gilbert SWAT team, police arrested a 49-year-old man outside of his Apache Junction home early Saturday after the suspect shot another man in the shoulder, police say.