Felix Delarosa became the first armed suspect to be arrested by a police robot in history. The fully armed and dangerous 39-year-old suspect held a standoff with the police for almost 2 hours. Efforts to make him surrender peacefully failed after he barricaded himself inside Lubbock Days Inn in Texas on Wednesday morning.
Delarosa was wanted by the Texas Anti-Gang unit members for violating conditions for his parole after he tampered with his monitoring device.
He was the first to shoot at the officers when they located him inside the room, following the execution of his arrest warrant. The cops thought the negotiators from the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team would do a better job of talking Delarosa out of his armed confrontation, but the team was also met with gunfire.
A sniper from the SWAT shot him in the shoulder before the robot police from the Bomb Squad team was sent out.
Delarosa would still not give up easily. He threw a blanket on the SWAT robot to blind it, and when it came over to his window to break it, the man shot at it.
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The robot police shot teargas into the room, forcing Delarosa out as he covered his face. It then moved over him and pinned him to the ground till human officers came over to arrest him.
He was taken to the medical center for treatment and subsequently booked at Lubbock County Detention Center with his bond set at $403,500
Previously, Felix Delarosa was arrested and sentenced in 2017 for drug trafficking and manufacturing.
This is not the first police robot dog to be created or deployed. Just like the movies, the ‘Black Mirror’ robot dogs had been used by the New York police, but it was withdrawn due to massive complaints that it only patrolled black neighborhoods.