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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A man&#8217;s apparent standoff with police ended early Saturday morning when he was removed from a North Washington Street residence and taken away in an ambulance.</p><p>City police had a three-block section of North Washington Street blocked off with officers in bulletproof vests surrounding a building in the 1300 block, for nearly five hours, starting about 9 p.m. Friday.</p><p>Dozens of neighbors made their way onto the street to see what had disturbed what they said is a historically quiet neighborhood.</p><p>Several residents who claimed to know the person in the building said they were texting him and believed he had guns in the house.</p><p>Police approached those gathered and asked that they not text the person.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like when you&#8217;re a parent,&#8221; one police officer said. &#8220;You can only listen to one person at a time.&#8221;</p><p>At one point, fireworks were set off in the area, which drew gasps from the crowd, but the noise was quickly identified as fireworks.</p><p>Saturday morning, Wilkes-Barre City Police Officer Joesph Ziegler said the incident was due to a &#8220;mental condition,&#8221; and could not divulge any further information on the man&#8217;s identity or where he is being held due to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which is commonly known as HIPAA Laws.</p><style>
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Updated: Apparent standoff in Wilkes-Barre ends