ALPINE: A sheriff's SWAT team took into custody a man who had holed up in a house on the Viejas Indian Reservation for five hours yesterday before surrendering.

Deputies saw Michael Edward LaChappa, 31, in front of the house near Viejas Grade Road and Bunker Hill about 12:20 p.m. They knew that a felony warrant was out for LaChappa's arrest and that he had a history of violence, sheriff's Lt. Anthony Ray said.

Sheriff's records on LaChappa show a felony warrant for allegedly threatening a witness and a misdemeanor warrant for alleged domestic violence.

The SWAT team was called in and surrounded the house. Ray said a woman came out of the house about 4:30 p.m. LaChappa surrendered about an hour later. –P.R.