Coeur d’Alene man arrested after stand-off with police

A 57-year old Coeur d’Alene man was arrested around noon Saturday in Coeur d’Alene after a stand-off with police in an apartment complex near Northwest Boulevard.

John F. Ober was booked into the Kootenai County jail for two counts of aggravated battery, one count of aggravated assault and one count of domestic battery, police said.

The incident started early this morning with a knife fight in an apartment on the 1200 block of Emma Avenue.

The suspect fled and climbed into the apartment in an effort to elude police. Because police were told Ober had explosives and an automatic weapon, the Spokane bomb squad was called and police eventually took Ober into custody without further incident.