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Joe Daly

"Guns in the house means it becomes a hostage situation." This is what happened when a Los Angeles SWAT team swooped on ex-Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri - and the stand-off that followed

Los Angeles police officers and a portrait of Nick Oliveri.

On July 12, 2011, neighbours in East Hollywood heard an argument coming from a duplex on Hobart Boulevard. Someone called the police.

By the end of the night, the front door of that home would be breached by a police robot, a SWAT team would spend hours surrounding the property, and then-39 year-old Nick Oliveri –former bassist and co-vocalist of Queens of the Stone Age – would be taken into custody after a five-hour standoff with the LAPD.

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