PORTLAND (AP) — Portland police say a man has been arrested following a brief standoff that led to the closing of part of Dartmouth Street near the University of Southern Maine.
Witnesses told WGAN-AM that police with rifles drawn swarmed a home between Brighton and Deering avenues after a report of a fight in which one of the parties allegedly had a gun Thursday morning.
The man retreated into a house but was arrested after a standoff.
Police say nobody was injured, and Dartmouth Street was reopened.
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