In the middle of a nearly six-hour standoff with Gillette police, a pair of drunk and uncooperative brothers apparently got a little hungry, surprising law enforcement outside their Limecreek Avenue home when DoorDash showed up.
About an hour into trying to get the brothers out of the home early Thursday morning, “a DoorDash delivery driver arrived to drop off food at the home,” wrote Gillette Police Officer Eric Small in an affidavit of probable cause filed in the case that was made available Monday.
The 23-year-old younger brother had placed the order, so police contacted him through the DoorDash app with another request for everyone inside to come out, but he refused, the affidavit says.
That was at about 2:12 a.m., more than five hours before police would finally secure a search warrant to enter the house and arrest the brothers.
Small doesn’t elaborate on what type of food the brothers may have ordered or if police allowed the food to go through to the home.
To have a DoorDasher show up in the middle of police waiting out potentially armed suspects “is a new one on me,” said Frank Groth, a Gillette resident and retired career law enforcement officer.
“What drunks will do has never ceased to impress me,” he added. “Drunks will do the darndest things.”
He said that he’s seen times when someone in a standoff will demand food be sent in, but not someone ordering it themselves.
“There have been cases when some dude while barricaded will demand food, but I have not heard of anybody DoorDashing while somebody is inside,” Groth said. “That’s kind of novel.”
In June a similar event happend during a SWAT standoff in Chandler, Arizona, a DoorDash delivery robot named Dot entered the active scene and disregarded police commands to vacate the area. Officers were forced to call a DoorDash technician to remove the robot, and police confirmed that no one on the SWAT team had placed an order.
