Police said Fields came outside several times holding a long gun but refused to talk. During this time, investigators contacted family who began to message Fields through social media.
Police monitored the postings and saw Fields was only becoming more anxious as evident in some of the posts he made to his Facebook page.
Daphne Police said because of his heightened level of anger and the fact that nobody else was inside the home, the. decision was made to do something not commonly done in these scenarios. “The route we took then was to back out of there and give it time and try and let him calm down,” explained Vannoy. “It really wasn’t going to be useful for us to go assault the house and try to arrest him at that point.”
Investigators maintained surveillance and were able to arrest Fields during a traffic stop once he left his residence Wednesday morning. He was taken into custody without incident. Police sid they will be asking for no bond on the charge of making a terrorist threat.Download the FOX10 Weather App. Get life-saving severe weather warnings and alerts for your location no matter where you are.
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