SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – One person is in custody after an hours-long standoff overnight in Springfield.

Springfield Police spokesperson Ryan Walsh said that officers were called to an apartment on the 0-100 block of Byers Street for a reported domestic disturbance, which involved an attempted arson, around 11:10 p.m. Wednesday. When they arrived, they found that the suspect, identified as 62-year-old Victor Velasquez of Springfield, had left the scene. However, he would later return with a knife and officers also returned to the scene as he allegedly barricaded himself inside the apartment.

Investigators applied for, and were granted, an arrest warrant and the city’s emergency services unit and crisis intervention team were called to the scene to assist officers. Authorities wer

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