Standoff Ends At Jimmy Swaggart Industries
BATON ROUGE, La. — The standoff involving East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s deputies and a man with a machete at the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries has ended.
The suspect was arrested Tuesday without incident.
Deputies responded to a call from a security guard at the campus about a man who had been sitting in his car since around 2:30 a.m.
Deputies said that when they approached the car, the man pulled out a machete and told them to back off.
The standoff ended around 9 a.m.