National SWAT News
SWAT teams catch suspect at hotel (KRQE & KASA FOX 2 Albuquerque)
Description: SWAT teams have taken wanted man Mario Mauricio into custody without incident, according to the Albuquerque Police Department. Mauricio, 24, barricaded himself inside the Marriott Courtyard Hotel Friday afternoon.
Publish Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:24:39 GMT

Pakistan desperately short of money to resettle Swat residents (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
Description: PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Major Western countries, after applauding Pakistan's military crackdown on Islamic extremists in the Swat valley in the country's northwest, haven't pledged the money needed to resettle the population now that the fighting is mostly over, and humanitarian organizations fear that 2 million people will be sent back home before it's safe to go.
Publish Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:38:00 GMT

Pakistan’s Swat Refugees Face Disease Threat, Need Aid, UN Says (Bloomberg)
Description: July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s 2 million refugees displaced by fighting in the northwestern Swat Valley are facing the threat of disease as they cope with damaged water and sewage systems in towns and villages, the United Nations said.
Publish Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:34:50 GMT

SWAT Standoff At Albuquerque Hotel (KOAT Albuquerque)
Description: An armed man barricaded himself inside an Albuquerque hotel room that led to a SWAT standoff.
Publish Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:42:12 GMT

Police seize $16,700 in drugs, arrest one (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
Description: Members of the Wichita Falls Police Department’s Organized Crime Unit and SWAT Team discovered and seized more than $16,000 worth of cocaine early Thursday morning in a house not far from the Boys and Girls Club on Rosewood Street, the WFPD announced.
Publish Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:39:01 GMT

Joplin police surround home in standoff (The Joplin Globe)
Description: A 32-year-old man, reportedly armed, has barricaded himself inside a home at 2614 Indiana Ave. Police have cordoned off the area and members of the Joplin Police SWAT team are gathing on the north side of the garage of the home.
Publish Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:29:50 GMT

SWAT team serves search warrant (Lincoln Journal Star)
Description: Lincoln Police are at 3030 Pioneers Blvd. this morning, serving a search warrant with the help of the SWAT team. No additional information was available yet, according to Officer Katie Flood.
Publish Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:25:13 GMT

SWAT Team Action in Dorchester (Bostonist)
Description: The Boston police Twitter feed warns that a SWAT team has set up at 2 Dudley Terrace, off the 700 block of Dudley Street, in Dorchester, to manage a "barricaded suspect."
Publish Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:15:13 GMT

Salinas police arrest two in Soledad Street drug bust (The Salinas Californian)
Description: About 10:30 a.m. today, members of the Salinas Police Departments Narcotic and Vice Unit, along with the Violence Suppression Unit (SWAT/City Gang Unit), served a search warrant on the 200 block of Soledad Street.
Publish Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:54:08 GMT

Assault Suspect Surrenders After SWAT Standoff (KCRA 3 Sacramento)
Description: Citrus Heights police arrested a man accused of trying to run down a law enforcement officer two weeks ago.
Publish Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:45:37 GMT