Dapto siege ends after five-hour police operation

Police and paramedics were called to Gloucester Crescent at 4.30pm on Wednesday, August 9, after a 49-year-old man barricaded himself in a house.

The man was not armed, however threats were made. Police officers negotiated with the man until almost midnight.

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"At 11.30pm he exited the front of his house without incident," Wollongong Police District Chief Inspector Dan Richardson said.

The man was then take to Wollongong Hospital.

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