High-tech hero: Video shows police bomb squad robot outsmart, pin down hotel gunman in Texas showdown



There's a new RoboCop in town. A police bomb squad robot singlehandedly incapacitated and pinned down an armed suspect in a Texas showdown.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said there was a warrant out for the arrest of 39-year-old Felix Delarosa because he violated his parole by tampering with his electronic monitoring device, KCBD reported.

The robot approached the broken window, and the suspect shot his gun at the robot. The bomb squad robot countered by spraying tear gas into the room.

Around 10 a.m. Wednesday, Texas Anti-Gang unit members tracked down Delarosa at a Days Inn hotel in Lubbock. Delarosa — who was armed at the time — reportedly fired a shot at officers from inside his room when they went to approach him.

The officers called the Lubbock County Sheriff’s SWAT team to assist with apprehending the suspect.

Officials said Delarosa fired another shot while SWAT negotiators attempted to convince him to peacefully surrender. During the negotiations, Delarosa — who was barricaded in his hotel room — allegedly fired more shots at officers.

A sheriff’s office sniper returned fire and allegedly struck Delarosa.

By this time in the standoff, the room's large glass window had been shattered amid the exchange of gunfire.

Robot to the rescue

The Lubbock Regional Bomb Squad deployed a robot to deal with the suspect without putting the lives of law enforcement in jeopardy. The bomb squad robot rolled up to Delarosa's hotel room. The suspect first attempted to debilitate the robot by throwing a bed sheet on it, which was not effective.

The robot approached the broken window, and the suspect shot his gun at the robot. The bomb squad robot countered by spraying tear gas into the room.

The suspect is seen on video desperately crawling out of the room and appears to be extremely disoriented from the tear gas.

While Delarosa was wriggling on the ground, the robot drove on top of him.

Then, while pinning him to the ground, the wheels of the robot pulled down the suspect's pants.

SWAT team members swooped in to take Delarosa into custody two hours after the showdown began.

Delarosa was transported to University Medical Center for his injuries and then booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center.

Delarosa was charged with aggravated assault against a public servant.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice noted that Delarosa was sentenced to 20 years in prison for manufacturing and delivering a controlled substance in 2017.

Delarosa was released from prison and placed on parole in April 2022.

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'They said I killed my parents': UFC champ Sean O'Malley detained by SWAT team while live streaming video games

'They said I killed my parents': UFC champ Sean O'Malley detained by SWAT team while live streaming video games



UFC bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley said that his home in Arizona was "swatted," a term used when armed police are falsely called to a person's residence in response to a violent threat or highly volatile situation.

O'Malley, who is known to stream online while playing video games, was shirtless with a gaming controller in his hands when he noticed police sirens in his driveway.

"Went home, I'm like, 'You know what? I’m gonna stream today,'" O’Malley said on his podcast the "TimboSugar Show."

"Streaming, about an hour and a half in I see a f***ing cop fly down my road," O'Malley recalled. The fighter said that he had a feeling of what was happening after having seen many other high-profile streaming personalities receive the same treatment from angry viewers.

"People find out where they're at and they call the cops, say something happened that obviously didn’t happen and then they’re f***ing getting swatted."

'They said I killed my parents or something like that. They thought there was an active shooter inside.'

"So, I peek out my head out the window to see if maybe it's something else. But then they’re on the intercom, and I see a bunch of cops, and they're like, 'Walk out with your hands up.' So I f***ing walk out, hands up. I was like, 'I'm just gonna listen. I could get shot.' I've got shotguns pointed at me, AR15s from like four different cops." he added.

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The UFC champion revealed that after being detained by police, he was notified that a 911 call had claimed that he had murdered both of his parents.

"They said I killed my parents or something like that. They thought there was an active shooter inside," O'Malley explained. He said he was asked repeatedly if anyone was inside the residence.

"They're like 'who's inside?!' I'm like no it was just game, 'who's inside?!' No one!" he told police. "Someone called the cops, said there's an active shooter, two dead people in the house or something."

O'Malley then explained that the responding police destroyed his doorbell camera because they wouldn't want any active shooters in the home to know where they were situated.

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Despite being a well-known figure, O'Malley said he was detained for about 35-40 minutes in the back of a police car before other police officers arrived on-scene and recognized him.

Once police recognized "the UFC champ," O'Malley said the situation "got a lot less intense."

The fighter was told by police that law enforcement has not been able to locate or identify the prank caller.

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Florida sniper sends attempted bank robber to the hereafter with a well-placed shot: 'A chaotic scene'



A convicted felon claiming to have a bomb held up a bank and took two hostages Tuesday in Fort Myers, Florida. When negotiations failed and the suspect appeared ready to slash a woman's throat, a SWAT sniper restored order with a well-placed shot.

Shortly after 11 a.m., the Lee County Sheriff's Office received a report of a robbery in progress with multiple hostages at the Bank of America in Bell Tower. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said during a press briefing Tuesday, "It was a chaotic scene."

A man armed with a knife and claiming to have a bomb reportedly stormed the bank and leaped over the counter. The suspect has been identified as 36-year-old Sterling Ramon Alavache.

The LCSO indicated that Alavache is a convicted felon with an extensive criminal history, including drug trafficking, aggravated assault, and unlawfully carrying a concealed firearm in various states. WZVN-TV noted that Alavache had three prior arrests just in Charlotte County.

With the support of the FBI, the LCSO pulled out all the stops to resolve the incident, deploying a robotic dog, a SWAT team, electronics surveillance, and drones.

"A group of deputies immediately went into that building ... and began to — as people, dozens of people ran out — they began to secure all other portions of the building while simultaneously hostage negotiations began with our suspect," said Marceno.

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Deputies attempted to negotiate with Alavache until he reportedly began to rough up the hostages.

Marceno said that "at one point during negotiations he became physical. He started to put one of the hostages in like a headlock and he had the knife to her throat. SWAT team was in place. When he presented deadly force like that, our SWAT sniper shot and killed the suspect. We were in fear for her life and safety."

Both hostages and all deputies apparently escaped the ordeal unscathed.

Authorities did not confirm whether or not Alavache did in fact have an explosive device on his person.

"It's a sad day when innocent lives are placed in jeopardy due to the senseless acts of others," the sheriff said in a subsequent statement. "My family members were faced with a tough decision today to neutralize an active threat to the public, during a very volatile situation. Let this serve as a reminder of how important it is to remain vigilant."

The LCSO confirmed to WZVN that the sniper who made the lethal shot at the bank has been placed on administrative leave per protocol.

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Sen. Rick Scott Announces He Was Swatted At Florida Home

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Former SWAT Team Members BREAKS DOWN Deadly Utah raid

Former SWAT Team Members BREAKS DOWN Deadly Utah raid

Utah raid UNPACKED by FBI whistleblower & former SWAT team member



On August 8, Trump supporter Craig Robertson was killed in an FBI raid of his Utah home.

Robertson posted several threats to President Biden and other Democrats on social media, and although the FBI had met with him before, the threats continued.

But was Robertson a real threat? Granted that he was 75 years old and immensely limited physically due to weighing 300 pounds, the answer is likely no.

So why was a SWAT team necessary? Why did they use a flash grenade in the raid? Why is there no body cam footage?

That’s what Glenn Beck wants to know, and luckily Steve Friend, FBI whistleblower and former SWAT team member, is here to answer questions.

“Was this attack on this man's home [meant] ... to send a message? Was it just incompetence? Laziness? What happened?” Glenn inquires.

“I think that it is a result of the fact that the FBI is now viewing their agents as case managers as opposed to the agents who investigate the cases,” Friend responds. “You're called a case manager, and when you're the case manager, you're sort of moving chess pieces around the board.”

“In this case they had a history with this gentleman, and they obviously knew that he wasn't an imminent threat,” he continues.

Although Friend thinks “there were far better options” when it came to Robertson’s case, he acknowledges that “you don't want to be the leader that said, ‘Well, I sent two agents to his house instead of a SWAT team when he threatened to kill the president.”’

Glenn is also curious as to why the SWAT team threw a flash grenade, a non-lethal explosive device used to disorient an enemy, outside of Robertson’s house when the team had already infiltrated his home.

“It could have been an accident,” says Friend. He explains that the team might have been “anticipating needing a flashbang” but didn’t and was forced to throw it to a safe area so that it didn’t “go off in the operator's hand.”

To ascertain the details of what exactly happened, one would need video evidence, but apparently, the FBI doesn’t currently wear body cams.

“There’s a plan in place to implement body cameras,” says Friend, but “I’m concerned that if the decision is made to actually wear them that the FBI will say we don't want to reveal our tactics, so we're not going to have them rolling when we do our SWAT takedowns.”

“If the FBI is going to get involved in all of these local things and their response is to always send in a SWAT team, I think it's important that they have cameras on them,” says Glenn.

“I agree with you on that 100%,” Friend responds.


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Former FBI agent says THIS is the BIGGEST issue with Utah raid



A Utah resident named Craig Robertson was killed on Wednesday while FBI agents attempted to execute a search and arrest warrant. According to officials, Robertson had made several threats via his Facebook page against President Biden and others.

Glenn Beck isn’t convinced deadly force was justified in the raid of the 75-year-old man's home, so he sat down with former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin to hear what he thinks.

“You don’t do that. What he did was wrong, illegal, and you would expect the FBI to come in. However, you wouldn’t expect them to kill him. So, I don’t see a good guy here on either side. Although, I do kind of side with the victim,” Glenn tells Seraphin.

“The bigger picture,” Seraphin explains, “is this: you can make really bad decisions and get to the point where there’s a SWAT team there, and once that happens, a shooting of someone in that scenario can be very justified.”

He tells Glenn that if an officer has a reasonable belief that the person in question poses imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or another person, then deadly force is justified.

“I’m pretty confident — I’ve talked to my buddies who are actually on that team — that this was a straightforward weapon response scenario. They were justified in making that shot,” Seraphin says.

However, he explains that it’s not exactly what happens during the shooting that poses the problem with the handling of the situation. Rather, what had happened before.

“The decisions of the investigation that went on before it and the decision to send SWAT into this guy’s presence,” Seraphin says, “those can be bad decisions.”

Glenn is not pleased.

“I’m disgusted by this whole thing, and I still believe what the guy did was wrong, and he should have expected the FBI to show up,” Glenn says.

However, he notes, “He’s 75 years old. He is obese. Five, four, three hundred pounds. He can’t get up out of a chair without a walking stick or a cane. He walks with a cane. He’s got a blind son who just had a stroke. And you use basically a tank to come in through his front window.”


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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Was Swatted After Fake 911 Call

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