Hours-long standoff and negotiation at Richmond home; man taken into custody

UPDATE: Cheng, Ian Huang, 42, faces seven charges including kidnapping, sexual assault using a Taser, and impersonating a police officer.

RICHMOND (NEWS 1130) – There is still a police presence outside a home in Richmond, after a dramatic standoff yesterday not far from an elementary school.

It happened in the Seafair neighbourhood, where a woman says she was held captive inside the house.

Early this morning, police tape was still up outside a large home on Jesmond Avenue, an expensive house with a Tesla among the cars parked outside.

Police tape remains up outside a home on Jesmond Avenue on Thursday May 31, 2018, RCMP believe a woman was held captive at this home the day before. (Martin MacMahon, NEWS 1130 Photo)

Yesterday afternoon, RCMP took a man into custody, following a standoff and negotiation process that took several hours. No one was hurt.

Darren lives in the neighbourhod and claims there have been issues at the house in the past. “There were always parties going on — all times of the night — and people coming and going.”

His daughter was among the children put under lockdown at a nearby Alfred B. Dixon Elementary School.

“All the parents had to make sure that their kids had an adult around them all the kids were shaken when the blinds and all the lights went out. Three bells means that it is a lockdown.”

“They weren’t sure what was going on, but when I figured out it came from this house, I had an idea,” adds Darren.

A man was taken into custody. Police say he is 42, but we don’t know much else about him.

If you have any information about this case, you’re asked to call Richmond RCMP at 604-278-1212 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).