A 28-year-old High Ridge man was arrested following a chase on Hwy. 141 and a standoff at a Fenton-area home, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Deputies arrested the man for a probation violation. He was wanted by St. Louis County Police for violating the terms of his probation after pleading guilty to multiple felonies in both St. Louis and Jefferson counties, court records show.
The man was arrested at about 10:30 p.m. Aug. 13 after a two-hour standoff at a home on Fiedler Lane in unincorporated Fenton, where a 72-year-old woman the man is related to lives, said Maj. Gary Higginbotham of the Sheriff’s Office.
At about 3:30 p.m. Aug. 13, near the intersection of Fiedler Lane and Fiedler Circle, deputies spotted a 2005 Honda Accord that authorities previously had tried to stop because the man had been known to drive it, but he allegedly fled from them, Higginbotham said.
When deputies attempted to stop the car, the driver headed north on Hwy. 141 into St. Louis County. Deputies pursued the fleeing vehicle until it entered a construction area near Bowless Avenue in Fenton, where traffic became too dense to continue the pursuit, Higginbotham said.
At about 4:30 p.m., deputies went to the home on Fiedler Lane and found the Honda parked nearby. They knocked on the door and allegedly heard a woman and man talking and recognized their voices from pervious encounters, but no one would open the door, Higginbotham said.
The people in the home closed the blinds on the windows and refused to speak to the deputies. A search warrant for the man’s arrest was secured at about 8:30 p.m., and after two hours of negotiating for the people inside to come out, they exited the house and were arrested, Higginbotham said.
The man was taken to Jefferson County Jail, where he was being held Monday (Aug. 16) on the probation violation. The Sheriff’s Office will seek charges against him through the Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for resisting arrest, Higginbotham said.
The woman was booked and released pending application for warrants. The Sheriff’s Office will seek a charge against her for harboring a fugitive, Higginbotham said.