1 of 2 DAVE ROGERS/Staff photoPolice officers are stationed outside a home in Newburyport where a man barricaded himself Friday morning. DAVE ROGERS/Staff photoPolice, including members of a regional SWAT team, respond to a home in Newburyport where a man barricaded himself Friday morning. NEWBURYPORT â Dozens of heavily armed police officers surrounded an Atkinson Street home Friday after a 57-year-old man barricaded himself inside. The same man prompted police to visit his home several times in the previous days. The incident began when police responded just after 8 a.m. to a report of a break-in at Newburyport One Stop Gas Station at 1 Kent St. The suspect had left prior to officersâ arrival, but a witness saw the man â believed to be armed â flee into the residence at 3 Atkinson St., according to a press release.