SWAT personnel confront a man who barricaded himself in his vehicle when officers attempted a routine traffic stop on Haven Ave. near Fourth Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo by Sandra Emerson, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Rancho Cucamonga Police officers keep a distance from a man who barricaded himself in his car when officers tried to pull him over during a routine traffic stop on Haven Ave. near Fourth Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo by Sandra Emerson, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies fill the vehicle of a barricaded suspect with smoke in an effort to get the suspect to come out and give himself up during a SWAT incident on Haven Ave. near Fourth Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday, April 10, 2019.

About a quarter mile stretch of Haven Ave. at Trademark St. in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. was closed off for hours starting about 8:30 a.m. A person barricaded themselves in a car, center gray, but was safely pulled out Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies, SWAT team, investigators and media surround a barricaded driver on Haven Ave. and Trademark St. in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Smoke bombs and what sounded like shots were heard. The person was pulled from car and is safe Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)



It was chaos as smoke bombs were thrown, glass shattered, and what sounded like shots rang out when a person barricaded themselves in a car, but was safely pulled out along Haven Ave. at Trademark St. in Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Investigators look through the powder-filled interior after smoke bombs were thrown at the vehicle where a barricaded person was in a stand off with authorities along Haven Ave. at Trademark St. in Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

A three-and-a-half-hour standoff between a driver and law enforcement at a Rancho Cucamonga intersection ended Wednesday morning, April 10, after officers pumped tear gas into the car after other efforts, including firing non-lethal bean bags, failed.

There were no injuries, Rancho Cucamonga Sheriff’s station spokeswoman Rhonda Dixon said.

The incident ended when San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies and SWAT team members took Maurice Bush, 28, of Pomona into custody shortly after 11 a.m., Dixon said.

Bush was arrested on suspicion obstructing a peace officer and evading a peace officer, a sheriff’s news release said. He was in custody at the West Valley Detention Center in lieu of posting bond on $35,000 bail.

The incident, first reported at 7:43 a.m., involved two separate incidents of blocking busy intersections, a slow-speed chase, two efforts to get Bush out of the car by firing pepper balls and bean bag rounds, efforts to negotiate even as Bush lowered his driver’s seat to drop out of sight, and finally the tear gas, Dixon said.

“That we do not know,” Dixon said when asked why it happened.

She said deputies were first contacted about a silver Acura, which authorities said was driven by Bush, when callers said it had stopped and was blocking the intersection at Haven Avenue and Foothill Boulevard in Rancho Cucamonga.

When deputies arrived, Bush started driving southbound on Haven.

“Bush was observed displaying erratic behavior, waving his hands wildly, as he drove,” the release said.

He stopped in the middle of Haven and Trademark Parkway after a slow-speed chase, Dixon said, and was eventually surrounded by law enforcement officers as he refused to leave the car. The Acura was book-ended by armored vehicles, front and rear.

The less-lethal rounds and efforts to negotiate by a sheriff’s sergeant did not bring a response, Dixon said. Bush had turned up the volume on his car stereo, and his windows were darkly tinted, hindering communications.

“He never complied, there was no response,” Dixon said, and around 11 a.m. tear gas was used, and Bush was taken from the car.

Some loud noises were heard at the same time the tear gas was pumped into the car, but Dixon said Wednesday evening she was not sure of the source for those. Streets closed during the standoff were open soon after the incident ended.