Merced police responded to the intersection of 21st and V Streets in Merced on Friday afternoon, where 911 callers reported seeing a man with what looked like an assault rifle standing in front of a home.
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When officers arrived, the suspect - 51-year-old Brian Arredondo - barricaded himself inside a nearby home with the weapon.
After a standoff that lasted more than five hours, Arredondo finally came out of the home and surrendered to police.
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After searching the house, police found that the rifle he had been spotted with was actually a BB gun and not an actual rifle.
Arredondo has been booked into the county jail for resisting arrest.