--- title: Vine Star Bryan Silva Arrested After Police Standoff description: Bryan Silva often posts images of guns on his account canonical: https://time.com/4167193/bryan-silva-vine-arrest/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-05T01:11:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T21:10:07.000Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Vine Star Arrested After Standoff With the Police og:description: Bryan Silva often posts images of guns on his account og:url: https://time.com/4167193/bryan-silva-vine-arrest/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vine Star Arrested After Standoff With the Police twitter:description: Bryan Silva often posts images of guns on his account twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Vine Star Arrested After Standoff With the Police by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:10 PM CUTPublished: Jan 5, 2016 1:11 AM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:10 PM CUTPublished: Jan 5, 2016 1:11 AM CUT **Correction appended** A popular Vine user was [arrested](http://www.nbc29.com/story/30873557/police-standoff-on-jefferson-park-ave-ends-with-suspect-surrender "undefined") on Sunday after a nine-hour standoff with police in Charlottesville, Va. Bryan Silva, 25, had been inside a home with his 17-year-old girlfriend that morning; she fled the premises and told a neighbor that Silva had threatened her with a firearm and said he would shoot the police, the Charlottesville police chief told NBC affiliate WVIR. A neighbor helped the young women notify the police, and when they arrived, Silva was barricaded inside the house and refused to leave for hours, until the police launched a chemical irritant inside. Silva was arrested soon after, and charged with possession of a firearm and abduction. Silva has more than 461,000 followers on [Vine](https://vine.co/Bryan.Silva?mode=grid "undefined"), and often loops videos of guns or gun sounds. **Correction:** The original version of this story misstated the number of Silva’s followers on Vine. He has more than 461,000 followers. \[[WVIR](http://www.nbc29.com/story/30873557/police-standoff-on-jefferson-park-ave-ends-with-suspect-surrender "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4167193/bryan-silva-vine-arrest/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4167193/bryan-silva-vine-arrest/"},"headline":"Vine Star Arrested After Standoff With the Police","datePublished":"2016-01-05T01:11:01.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T21:10:07.000Z","description":"Bryan Silva often posts images of guns on his account","url":"https://time.com/4167193/bryan-silva-vine-arrest/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4167193/bryan-silva-vine-arrest/","name":"Vine Star Arrested After Standoff With the Police"}}]}] ```