NEW YORK — A tense eight-hour standoff with a fugitive threatening to jump from a 31st-floor Midtown apartment window after an FBI raid gone wrong ended dramatically Wednesday with a daredevil arrest.
An NYPD Emergency Service Unit officer scaled his way down from the floor above to slip into the residence through a shattered glass window and conclude the bizarre faceoff with suspect Ian Mitchell as a crowd watched the high-rise drama from the street below.
The suspect had a white towel draped over his head and his hands behind his back as he was led from the luxury skyscraper, taken to a waiting ambulance about 4:40 p.m. and driven to Bellevue Hospital by the FBI for a psychiatric evaluation.
