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Man arrested at standoff has pending domestic violence charge
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A man police arrested after a brief standoff late Monday faces a pending domestic-violence charge.
Delis Figueroa, 44, was arrested on a new charge of domestic violence as well as obstructing justice and discharge of a firearm in city limits. He is expected to be arraigned on those charges today in municipal court.
He is also due in court Friday for a pretrial hearing before Judge Elizabeth Kobly on a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence. He was arrested July 18.
Court records show he posted bond on the charge July 21.
Police call records show officers have been called at least nine times to Figueroa’s home in the 500 block of Idora Avenue on the South Side, where they were called again about 11:40 p.m. Monday for a report of a man firing a gun.
When officers arrived, they saw Figueroa peeking outside from a curtain.
They told him to come outside, but he refused.
A witness told police he was on his porch nearby on Utilis Avenue and heard several shots. He saw Figueroa and a woman in the backyard of Figueroa’s home, and the woman was screaming. Reports said the witness told police the pair went inside the home just before police showed up.
Reports said two officers tried to coax Figueroa out of the home with their loudspeakers. When he refused, they summoned the Mahoning Valley Crisis Response Team. As members of the team were arriving, reports said Figueroa and the woman could be seen peeking out the curtains and were ordered out. Both came out through a basement door, reports said.
As CRT members prepared to go inside the home, reports said Figueroa told police there were several men with guns inside the home but kept changing the number of people inside. Reports said he later admitted no one was inside but there was a handgun and a shotgun, reports said.
Once police got inside, they found no one else, but they did find some spent shotgun shells and the shotgun and handgun, reports said.
Reports said Figueroa also admitted firing a weapon when police tried to give him a gunshot-residue test.