UPDATE @ 12:20 a.m. (March 31): A man and woman, identified as boyfriend and girlfriend, remain jailed in Montgomery County following a hourslong standoff Friday in Perry Twp. that Sheriff Phil Plummer said involved drugs.
Lindsay L. Wells, 30, is detained on suspicion of drug-related offenses and a warrant. She is to be in court on Tuesday, online jail records show.
David C. Clark, 30, is detained on suspicion of obstructing justice. No court information was posted for him.
The standoff, which lasted more than eight hours, grew out of a traffic stop in the area of Wolf Creek Pike and Diamond Mill Road about 5:30 a.m. Friday, when officials said Wells tried to run over a Perry Twp. police officer.
“She fled straight to her house here on Wolf Creek,” Sheriff Plummer said. “We deployed the SWAT and hostage teams.”
After several hours, the SWAT team deployed gas into the residence in the 11800 block of Wolf Creek Pike and Clark came out. That was just after 1 p.m.
The SWAT team fired more gas canisters into the house and Wells still didn’t come out, so a police K-9 was sent in and found her hiding in the basement crawlspace, Plummer said. She was taken into custody about 3:15 p.m.
“She was bound and determined to stay in there. It took a lot of our time and a lot of our resources up,” he said. “This was all drug related.”
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Plummer said Clark and Wells likely will face charges including inducing panic, felonious assault and more.
The Perry Twp. officer, whose name has not been released, executed a traffic stop in the area of Wolf Creek Pike and Diamond Mill Road between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. When the officer got out of the cruiser, the driver, identified as Wells, attempted to run the officer over, township police officials said.
After the driver backed the car into the police cruiser, the man and the woman got out of the car and ran into the house on Wolf Creek Pike, which sparked the standoff, Plummer said.
Cheryl Ross lives in the neighborhood and said it’s normally a quiet place to live.
“Every few minutes I can hear them announcing for somebody to come out with their hands up out the front door,” Ross said. “Wondering if I’m safe in my own house, because I don’t know what’s going on.”
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The SWAT team used sirens and a public address system to force Clark and Wells to come out. Police and deputies also blocked both directions of South Wolf Creek Pike.
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