Police swarmed the Best Budget Inn near Admiral and Sheridan Monday to help parole officers with a fugitive, Tulsa police said.

Officers said Carlos Rubalcaba had been on probation and was required to wear a GPS ankle monitor. Police said the Department of Corrections was immediately notified when Rubalcaba removed the device.

TPD said Rubalcaba was inside a room at the Best Budget Inn and refused to surrender for several hours.

“After a couple of hours of failed attempts to verbally convince the suspect to vacate the hotel room, we introduced a canaster of olfactory and ocular irritant (tear gas). This deployment proved to be effective and the suspect exited the room coughing and tearing up.” TPD posted on social media.

Even after leaving the room, police said the suspect was still not cooperating, forcing officers to use pepper balls to get him to comply with orders.

Rubalcaba was taken into custody without further incident.