A narcotics raid in Austell turned dangerous Thursday night when a suspect allegedly opened fire on officers before barricading himself inside the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udd0d What Happened:<\/strong> The Marietta-Cobb-Smyrna Narcotics Task Force was executing a search warrant at a home on Eugenia Place SW around 8:25 p.m. when a man allegedly began shooting at officers, according to Cobb County Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No officers were injured during the exchange of gunfire, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\ude94 The Response:<\/strong> The Cobb County SWAT team was called to the scene after the suspect barricaded himself inside the residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a standoff, the suspect \u2014 identified as Jose Azanza Cruz, 36, of Austell \u2014 surrendered and was taken into custody without further incident, according to police reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc8a The Investigation:<\/strong> Officers seized narcotics, a firearm and other evidence during their search of the home, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cruz faces three counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, while several other individuals at the residence were also detained and arrested, though police haven’t specified those charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f What’s Next:<\/strong> The investigation remains active, with Cobb Police asking anyone with information to contact their Organized Crime Unit at 770-499-4111.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sources:<\/strong> Cobb County Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=45]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A narcotics raid in Austell turned dangerous Thursday night when a suspect allegedly opened fire on officers before barricading himself inside the home. \ud83d\udd0d What Happened: The Marietta-Cobb-Smyrna Narcotics Task Force was executing a search warrant at a home on Eugenia Place SW around 8:25 p.m. when a man allegedly began shooting at officers, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":30779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8511,18683,18682,9227],"class_list":["post-227983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-cobb-county-police","tag-drug-warrant","tag-gunfire","tag-swat","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}