MOORHEAD, Minn. – A police standoff ended with a suspect taken to the hospital and a woman arrested.
This all started around 8:15 Monday morning when a Clay County Deputy tried to do a traffic stop at 60th Avenue near 14th Street South in rural Moorhead.
Sheriff Mark Empting said a passenger, a woman, threw a backpack out the window and she is waiting to be booked into the jail.
A trooper then used stop sticks at 28th Street and 40th Avenue in Moorhead. The car stopped in a field across from Lutheran Church of the Good Shepard and the driver, a man, ran, broke the window of a nearby home on the 2200 block of 40th Avenue South. Police say a woman and child were inside and they weren’t aware the man was inside the home until officers took them to safety.
Empting says the man was found in the attic and a SWAT Team was called in. Reporter Austin Erickson saw a drone overhead and heard an officer using a bullhorn say “Christopher, you are under arrest. If you’re in the attic, make yourself known.”
Police used pepper balls to get the man out and Empting says they didn’t find a gun on him. He was taken to the hospital as a precaution since he was in the attic for three hours in the heat. The temperature was above 80 degrees at the time. The man’s name hasn’t been made public.
There was a shelter in place order for a half mile around the home.
