Police responded to the Highland Glen neighborhood on the Southside Friday evening at a home listed to former NFL wide receiver Jabar Gaffney.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said they were dispatched to an armed suicidal person at the residence.
According to JSO, deputies surrounded the home and "efforts (were) made to contact the subject." SWAT was then called out and the subject exited the residence minutes later.
JSO said the person was taken into custody and admitted to Mental Health Resource Center under the provisions of a Baker Act.
The person taken into custody has not been confirmed to be former UF Gator and Raines High School football player Jabar Gaffney, but multiple neighbors report seeing the man fitting the description of Gaffney being taken into custody.
This comes a day after Gaffney plead not guilty to the vandalism case in Jacksonville Beach.
Neighbors said they watched Jabar Gaffney come out of the house with his hands up, and then put in the back of a police car after JSO officers used a megaphone to call him outside.
The HOA at the neighborhood sent an email telling residents to stay home. "There is JSO police activity on Highland Glen Way and the police have closed the neighborhood. Please stay in your home and lock your doors! Do not go near the amenity center."
Neighbors like Greg Wilkes said police did not give him any information, but they walked around his house with their assault rifles drawn. "I was looking out the front window observing the policeman, they were hid behind our cars with what looked like AK47's drawn. They said get back in, there's a dangerous situation."
"We didn't get any actual details, but they just asked that we stay inside until they had everything secured," said Epps Perkins, a neighbor a couple of doors down.