The search for a wanted man who allegedly threatened police officers on Friday night in Milnsbridge moved to Almondbury this morning.
Several officers, a police van and dogs surrounded a house in Fernside Avenue about 10.30am hoping to find the 37-year-old man who is wanted on recall.
A police source said: “We had been given private information that he was at an address in Almondbury , but he wasn’t there so we didn’t get him.”
The man had fled Rufford Road, Milnsbridge , at 10.45pm on Friday when officers turned up at his home to arrest him claiming he had infringed the terms of his licence and was being recalled to prison.
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A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “Following brief negotiations, a man within the property made threats towards attending officers and made off from the scene armed with a knife.”
Police say he is potentially dangerous.
A man claiming to be the knifeman has phoned the Examiner several times to give his side of the situation.
He said he has served a long stretch in prison for robbery and was freed in January last year. He denied he had threatened anyone with a knife and said he had “no intention of going back to prison or giving himself up”.
In a later call he said he was trying to make arrangements through his solicitor to give himself up but said he was fearful for his safety.