Oceanside Police have identified the man involved in a six hour SWAT standoff in Oceanside Saturday night as 28-year-old Matthew Machonis.
The standoff happened at approximately 7 p.m. on the 1600 block of Broadway Street in a four unit apartment, where police said a woman living with a man called the police.
Police evacuated the apartment complex and closed off parts of nearby streets Saturday night in Oceanside as they surrounded a building in a SWAT standoff situation that lasted more than five hours.
Police said a 28-year-old military man told them he was armed with an assault rifle and that the situation would not end well for him or the police, as Machonis threatened to shoot them and himself. Police said it stemmed from the fact that he is in the process of being discharged from the military.
Police said the incident started when they got a call from a woman who said her live-in boyfriend had a gun to her head and threatened to kill her. She told police she was able to wrestle the gun away and throw it in the bathroom.
Police said she thought she could talk her boyfriend down, but she gave up and walked out. That's when they said he threatened to shoot them and their armored vehicle. The man holed up in the house and told police he had at least three weapons inside, including a semi-automatic pistol and a shotgun.
Police had portions of Morse and the 1600 block of Broadway blocked off as the night progressed.
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He was taken into custody without incident at approximately 1:10 a.m. and booked into Vista Detention Facility for assault with a deadly weapons and domestic battery.
A search of the residence found a Remington 870 shotgun and a Glock 40 caliber semi-automatic handgun, both of which were seized and taken into custody.
