By The Telegram

A Garden City man has been placed in police protective custody after attempting suicide and barricading himself in his home, said Garden City police Sgt. Mike Reagle.

Police plan to file an affadavit with the Finney County Attorney's Office requesting a felony charge of criminal threat against the 46-year-old man because he threatened to shoot officers, Reagle said.

Reagle said dispatchers received a call Monday night from a man who said he had taken several pills and claimed he wanted to die.

While officers were en route to help the man, he called the dispatch center again, this time threatening to shoot any officers who responded to his home, Reagle said.

Reagle said officers responded to the 2200 block of Crestway Drive shortly after 9 p.m. and surrounded the man's residence.

While outside, the man allegedly threatened to shoot the officers and told dispatchers he was armed with automatic guns.

Reagle said the Garden City Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics team responded to the residence as dispatchers continued to talk with the man.

Dispatchers spoke with him for 1 1/2 hours and were able to convince him to surrender to police.

Reagle said the man was taken to St. Catherine Hospital and admitted into the Intensive Care Unit for the pills he swallowed. He then was transferred to the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility.

After the man was taken to the hospital, officers obtained a search warrant for the home, where they found several knives but no firearms.