Jersey City's own Leroy Reaves is already living the Clint Eastwood life. According to his own tenants, Reaves was told they would be having a guest stay over at their apartment. This must not have registered with landlord Reaves who, hearing the downstairs shower running let himself inside the unit and confronted the guest with his handgun. Not just confronted, more like menaced if the guest is to be believed.
The Jersey Journal picks it up at the confrontation part:
The victim said Reaves forced him to put some clothes on and once in the kitchen pressed the gun against him saying "Make this easy on me, pick up that knife".
Woooooo, how Dirty Harry.
But unlike Harry Callahan, San Francisco PD, Mr. Reaves is not a cop which makes pointing a gun at the head of one of your tenant's guests a bad thing. Police arrived on the scene after being called by the house guest and police took great measures to get Mr. Reaves to come out and discuss his actions. They banged on the door, blasted their sirens, used loudspeakers and yet Reaves wouldn't come out. Finally he did come out after police set up a perimeter, you know, the kind used for a man with a gun.
Reaves was arrested and charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, burglary and weapons offenses.
To quote Dirty Harry: "A man's got to know his limitations".
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