Combat veteran arrested after 3-hour standoff
By Michelle Mondo
Updated 12:25 a.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2012
A U.S. Army veteran medically discharged after three tours in combat zones held police at bay during a more than three-hour standoff in Converse on Monday evening before peacefully surrendering, authorities said.
U.S. marshals took Dewey Head, 31, into custody around 8:30 p.m. The marshals had arrived at his house on Discovery Drive because an arrest warrant had been issued for Head out of federal court, said U.S. Deputy Marshal Eric De Los Santos, a spokesman for the agency.
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As for someone who was there, Mr Head was never outside of the home. The US Marshalls stopped his wife and child as they were backing out of the driveway to go to a doctor appt. The wife was detained and threatened to be placed under felony arrest for a 5 year sentence, an enormus fine and her child removed from her custody when she told the marshalls that when she left the house her husband was inside. They couldn't find him. The US Marshalls and converse police department were informed that there were no weapons in the house. The warrant that was being served was for a misdmeanor failure to appear because Mr Head was unaware of his court date. The wife also had a member of the converse police department point an assult riffle at her as he was screaming at her as she tried to cross the street to get some water from a neighbor and find out how her child, who a neighbor had taken to the doctor because she was not allowed to leave, was doing at the doctor
ReplyDeleteThere are way too many reports about veterans involved with standoffs with police. Now I'm wondering how many of them are like this one. Thanks for the other part of the story.
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