HARRINGTON, Maine (AP) — Authorities say a sixhour standoff at a house in Harrington has ended peacefully after a father and son who’d tried to prevent the family matriarch from getting medical treatment surrendered to state police.
Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland says 60- year-old Elliot Robinson and 78-year-old Vernon Robinson were arrested around 6:15 p.m. Thursday and charged with criminal restraint. They were taken to Washington County Jail. It wasn’t immediately known if they had lawyers.
McCausland says the two tried to prevent 84-year-old Elva Robinson from being taken from her home for treatment. Robinson has been under the protective custody of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for treatment of a long-term illness.
She was taken to the hospital after the standoff ended.
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