SPOKANE VALLEY -- The Spokane County Sheriff's Office SWAT Team arrested a home invasion robbery suspect in a home near the intersection of 7th and Sherman after launching several volleys of CS Gas into the residence to subdue him.

Glen Akers, 20, had been uncooperative and unresponsive with officers when they asked him to come out from the home, which prompted the SWAT Team's deployment around the home. Around 10:30 a.m. SWAT began shooting volleys of CS Gas into the home in an attempt to subdue the Akers.

Just before 11 a.m. Akers left the residence and was taken into custody.

Akers is suspected of going into a Spokane Valley woman's apartment late Monday and along with accomplice Darius Toussiant shoved her into a closet at gunpoint. The two men then robbed her home of electronics items including a television, cell phone and a laptop computer.

A neighbor of the 25-year-old woman called police to the apartment around 11 p.m. As police drove up to the residence they noticed a car speeding from the area with two men inside matching the description of the suspects given by the victim. When officers stopped the car one of the men inside jumped out with a handgun and ran from the scene.

Officers were able to arrest Toussiant, who stayed inside the car and when they realized they had Toussaint in custody they contacted the Joint City-County Gang Enforcement Team.

"We had one of our detectives from the gang unit go out and assist them and the follow up led us to this address where we wrote a warrant," Sergeant Dan Ervin with the Gang Enforcement Team said.

Glen Akers, who had ditched his buddy Darius Toussiant, was holed up in the basement of his girlfriend's home when he learned about the warrant out for his arrest from a sheriff's bullhorn.

The SWAT Team parked its bulletproof Bearcat right in front of Aker's hideout and when he refused to surrender deputies shot CS Gas through the basement windows where he was hiding.

"After a period of time and numerous warnings that they were going to use gas, gas was deployed and the individual came our rather quickly," Sgt. Ervin said.

Akers hasn't been back in Spokane that long, having flown into town last week from Detroit, but the gang team was quick to know where he's been living as well as people he's associated with, including his girlfriend.

"We need to know who our people are, who they are dealing with and who they see so that when we have situations like this we can follow up on them fairly quickly," Sgt. Ervin said.

The gang unit was able to assist in taking Aker off the street along with some drugs, an assault rifle and ammunition.

"Any time we can get a gun off the streets it's very important to our community. It makes people a lot safer," Ervin said.