A MAN has been charged with creating a false sense of danger over a suburban siege at a Warnbro house.
It will be alleged police responded to a report of a 55-year-old man behaving erratically and was barricaded in a house on Monterey Crescent yesterday.
The man allegedly made threats, causing additional police resources to be deployed to the house including Tactical Response Group officers.
Police said a negotiator spoke to the man and he emerged from the house just after 12.30pm, to be taken into custody and to a hospital for a mental assessment.
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READ NOWThe Warnbro man has been charged with acts creating false apprehension as to existence of threats or danger.
He is due to appear in the Rockingham Magistrates Court today.