Marcella Corona

mcorona@rgj.com

Sparks police arrested a man following a six-hour standoff after he reportedly armed himself with a handgun and barricaded himself inside a home with four hostages early Tuesday morning.

The incident occurred at 4:59 a.m. on Tuesday at a home on 30 E. O Street in Sparks, police said.

No one was hurt and no shots were fired during the standoff, Det. Ken Gallop said.

The man, who was identified as Daniel Isaac Enriquez, was wanted by Reno police after he was accused of a robbery at a Scolari’s Food & Drug Co. pharmacy in late April and a shooting at the Gold Dust West casino late last month, Sparks police said.

The Sparks and Washoe County Sheriff’s SWAT teams were called to the scene after police learned that Enriquez had a handgun and had threatened to shoot officers, Gallop said.

The incident began as Reno police officers followed a suspect into Sparks, said Officer Tim Broadway of the Reno Police Department.

Reno police then handed off the situation to Sparks police.

Authorities had evacuated neighboring homes and then attempted to talk Enriquez down. After the four hostages were evacuated, SWAT team members gassed the home and Enriquez voluntarily turned himself in, Gallop said.

One neighborhood resident said he and his family woke up to police knocking on his door and windows early Tuesday morning.

"We were sleeping, me and my wife and kids, and we saw a lot of lights," Luis Garcia said.

Garcia, who lives next to the house where police say Enriquez barricaded himself, was evacuated and waiting to return home. In the rush to get out, he said he had left his dog inside his home, Garcia said.

Information on the relation between the hostages and Enriquez was not immediately known Tuesday afternoon.

The incident had prompted authorities to block traffic in the area of 1st Street and Greenbrae Drive, and Probasco Way and Greenbrae.

Nearby Greenbrae Elementary School was unaffected by the incident, according to school district spokesman Victoria Campbell. Students were still on winter break, although there were intersession classes at the school.

Enriquez’s step mother, Lorraine Vains, said she learned about the incident through her son’s friend and immediately contacted police to ask to speak to him.

“My son and I are very close,” Vains said in a phone interview Tuesday. “He calls me every Sunday.”

Vains described her son as calm and level headed.

“I know that if they told him his (step) mother was calling him, he would call me back,” she said. “I want to make sure my son comes out safely.”

Marcella Corona covers breaking news for the Reno Gazette-Journal. Contact her at 775-788-6340, online at mcorona@rgj.com or follow her on Twitter at @Marcella_Anahi or on Facebook at Facebook.com/Marcella.Anahi