A Metro SWAT team deployed tear gas to apprehend a 55-year-old Akron man with a history of violating protection orders at his ex-girlfriend’s home in Springfield Township. Local police say the man reportedly barricaded himself inside and fired a single shot.
The township police department issued a press release Sunday afternoon saying the man, Vincent Mann of Akron, was taken to a hospital for evaluation. There was no mention of injuries to officers or the man during the arrest.
Sgt. Eric East of the Springfield Township Police Department, who could not be reached immediately by phone, said police were dispatched for a report of an “unwanted subject.”
At a home on Salmon Drive off Canton Road and just south of Sanitarium Road, East said officers encountered a woman “who stated that her ex-boyfriend was in the home and that there was an active protection order in place protecting her from him.”
“When officers attempted to make contact, a shot was fired from the suspect who was now barricaded inside the home,” East wrote in the report. “Metro SWAT responded to the scene and lengthy negotiations ensued. After negotiations, and the use of teargas failed to produce his surrender, SWAT team members made entry into the home and apprehended 55-year-old Vincent Mann of Akron.”
Within the hour, charges for the man appeared on the clerk’s website at the Akron Municipal Court. Mann is listed as living on Chalker Street in Akron’s North Hill neighborhood.
Mann now faces a second-degree felony charge of improperly discharging a firearm, a third-degree felony charge of illegally possessing a firearm (having been previously convicted of felonies that would make him ineligible to have a firearm), a fifth-degree felony charge of violating a protection order and a first-degree misdemeanor charge of inducing panic.
The charges are the latest in a string of felonies and broken protection order cases involving the man, his ex-girlfriend and her address on Salmon Drive.
Mann has two open felony cases from last year for violating a temporary restraining order in July and December at the Salmon Drive, according to court records.
He was previously charged with violating a temporary restraining order involving the same victim in 2020. In that incident, he was convicted in March 2020 of the felony. Misdemeanor charges of aggravated menacing, telecommunications harassment and inducing panic were dismissed.
The legal record appears to begin in August 2019 when police charged Mann with domestic violence and resisting arrest, again for an incident involving his ex-girlfriend and the property on Salmon Drive. In that case, Mann eventually pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to a year at the Lorain Correctional Institution with 138 days suspended for time already served.
In the 2019 case, the court indicated that Mann had already been found guilty twice of domestic violence — in 2007 and 2003.
In 2013, he was given two years of probation for two separate incidents of violating a protection order in 2012.