Barricaded Man Found Dead In La Crescenta Home

LA CRESCENTA, CA – A man that was reportedly the alleged convicted stalker of actress Sandra Bullock was found dead Wednesday of an apparent suicide following a standoff with a SWAT team at his La Crescenta home. Los Angeles Police Department officers went to the home located in the 2400 block of Harmony Place to serve a warrant about 7 a.m., when the man refused to comply.

Traffic was routed away from the area while authorities were in negotiations with the man to get him to surrender peacefully, according to the Los Angeles Times.

"The SWAT team was sent due to the suspect's threat of violence to police," Los Angeles Police Department Officer DrakeMadison said without elaborating.

Eventually, LAPD said the standoff had ended early Wednesday afternoon and the man had been found dead inside the home of a "self-inflicted injury."

According to TMZ.com, the suspect was allegedly Joshua Corbett, who was sentenced to five years probation last May for stalking actress Sandra Bullock and breaking into her West Los Angeles home. Los Angeles police did not immediately confirm the man's identity, although property records show that Corbett lives in the 2400 block of Harmony Place.

TMZ reported that police were trying to serve a warrant for a probation violation, but Corbett threatened the officers.

Corbett pleaded no contest last year to two felonies stemming from the break-in that occurred while Bullock was at her home in 2014. He was placed on five years probation and was ordered to continue treatment at a mental health facility.

He was also subject to a 10-year protective order requiring him to stay away from the actress.

Bullock, who won an Oscar for her leading role in "The Blind Side," called 911 on June 8, 2014, while hiding in a bedroom closet, telling a dispatcher a stranger was in her home.

"I'm locked in my closet," Bullock told the police operator during the call, which was played during a preliminary hearing. "I have a safe door in my bedroom, and I've locked it, and I'm locked in the closet right now."

Corbett -- who climbed a fence to get onto the star's property about 5 a.m. that day -- was carrying photos of the actress and a notebook containing a letter to her, according to testimony presented at his preliminary hearing.

Detectives described an arsenal of weapons they said were discovered in the defendant's residence after Los Angeles police searched the converted garage in which he was apparently living. He was not charged with having a weapon with him at the time of the pre-dawn break-in at Bullock's home.

The case against him was put on hold in January of 2017 after one of his attorneys declared doubt about the defendant's mental competence. A judge in March of last year agreed to lower his bail but ordered him to confine himself to a mental treatment facility in Tarzana.

City News Service and Patch staffer Emily Holland contributed to this report.