A SWAT team took an 18-year-old robbery suspect into custody in Brevard County after a three-hour standoff on Tuesday.

  • Dominque Sanders, 18, has 'at least 15 active warrants,' police say
  • Sanders is accused of robbing 2 students at gunpoint back in April

The Cocoa Police Department officers spotted Dominque Sanders and two juvenile suspects entering a home on the 500 block of Washington Avenue, not too far from South Cocoa Boulevard in Cocoa, a little after 3 p.m. on Tuesday.

The house is where Sanders was holed up for hours. The younger teens in the house came out right away, but Sanders would not. It took multiple officers, the crisis negotiation team and SWAT to get him out.

News 13 cameras were there as SWAT officers took Sanders into custody Tuesday night.

 

The Cocoa Police Department stated it had been looking for the suspects for weeks. Sanders and two different minor suspects robbed two 12-year-old students at gunpoint back in April as they walked to school, police say.

“We hear him, we see him and finally we were able to get him into custody. The individual who was holed up in the house has at least 15 active warrants in Brevard County,” said Public Information Officer Yvonne Martinez with the Cocoa Police Department.

The two minors who surrendered on Tuesday night were not involved in the armed robbery.

Police say last week one of those minor suspects stole a car then crashed it in front of an apartment on Flower Mound Lane in Cocoa.