Police responded to the 7500 block of Verree Road just before 7 a.m. for a report of a person with a gun.
Action News was been told shots were fired at police from inside a property. No injuries have been reported, and no police officers discharged their weapons during the incident.
A barricade situation was declared at 7:09 a.m. and the Philadelphia Police Department's SWAT unit was called to the scene.
Chopper 6 was overhead when police took the 59-year-old man into custody shortly before 9 a.m.
Officers walk man out amid barricade situation in Philadelphia's Fox Chase section
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