Man, children face charges in standoff
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Swansea Standoff
Three members of a family are charged in a police standoff.
Mario Andreozzi
Published: November 25, 2009
Updated: November 25, 2009
SWANSEA, Mass.—A two-hour overnight standoff in Swansea was a family affair, landing a 56-year-old man and his two children in court.
Police said they got a call late Tuesday night about a person possibly locked in the trunk of a car.
When officers showed up at the house on Old Providence Road, they said they were confronted by Mario Andreozzi, who was wielding a shotgun.
Police tasered Andreozzi and took him into custody. But they said his son, Anthony Andreozzi, grabbed the shotgun and ran into the house, starting a standoff.
After two hours, police convinced the younger Andreozzi and his sister to come out of the house.
The Herald News reported that police found a number of guns in the house, as well as a 2-year-old child asleep in a crib.
According to The Herald News, police said Anthony Andreozzi and his sister, Gina Andreozzi, went to Bristol on Tuesday night, picked up a man where he worked and wouldn’t let him leave the car.
Police said the siblings tried to break into the man’s apartment. Police got a call from a neighbor of the Andreozzis reporting that someone was being held in a car.
Police told the newspaper that when officers showed up, the man was being chased by Mario Andreozzi, who had the shotgun and was shouting racial slurs at the man. Police did not identify the man.
All three Andreozzis face slew of charges.
Mario Andreozzi, 56, was charged with assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, resisting arrest, and a civil rights violation.
Anthony Andreozzi, 19, also faces assault and resisting charges, along with kidnapping, armed robbery, and assault and battery to collect a loan.
Gina Andreozzi, 21, was charged with the robbery, kidnapping, assault to collect a loan, and breaking and entering.
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Your both right about the Andreozzi family being a good family. I went to school with the mom and dad and they are a good family. Whatever happened may not be what it seems. I hope they work things out. I an praying for them
SVETV988 on Youtube says, yes these are very good people i live right up the street from them and i am shocked to here about this. i beep the horn everytime i go by there and the father waves back, very good people no matter what you here or what you no i went to school with the son and daughter i have nothing bad to say about these people, hek they even one time bought a bike off of us.
NOT HERE TO ARGUE..JUS HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY..IM A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY AND I WANT IT TO BE KNOWN THAT THEY ARE VERY GOOD PEOPLE, PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES. IM JUST GOIN TO LEAVE IT AT THAT BECAUSE FOR ALL OF YOU WHO DONT KNOW THEM, YOUR ALL GOIN TO THINK AND BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT, NO MATTER WHAT ANYBODY SAYS.
The whole story sounds strange. I wonder what really happened? And for those of you that do not like Italians, keep it to yourselves. Oh, and by the way, the Andreozzi family is a good family.
bunch of pasta heads!!
im not getting this. Mario had the gun. Anthony barricaded himself. Who did they allegedly kidnap? And where was gina during all this? hmmm
i was surprised when i read the names. Italians have been kinda quiet. 
Now these folks sound like a good Italian family…Italians everywhere shoould be proud.
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