Video: Andrew Goff.

UPDATE, 12:10 a.m.: Just after midnight, the Eureka Police Department announced on social media that the barricaded subject was in custody and that they’d release more details soon.

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UPDATE, 5 p.m.:The situation is unchanged. Law enforcement remains on scene for the long haul, keeping the Hawthorne Street home surrounded while the subject stays inside despite repeated attempts to draw him out.

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UPDATE, 1:45 p.m.: Police are still on scene, with guns drawn. The Sheriff’s Office’s Bearcat has been brought to the location, and there’s a drone in the sky.

Archives from a Humboldt County scanner feed indicate that the incident began just before 10 a.m., when a man with a gun was found sleeping in a house not his own.

According to the Outpost‘s Andrew Goff, police are currently using a loudspeaker to instruct a person to come out of the house.

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Readers alert us to the fact that the Eureka Police Department has taped off a block of Hawthorne Street, in between Summer and Union, while some sort of investigation is underway.

Eureka Police spokesperson Laura Montagna said that the department did not have any information it was able to share at the moment, but she did say the public was not at any risk.

An Outpost reader who witnessed the scene said police were seen outside a home with their weapons drawn a little bit ago.

We’ll update when we know more.