A man has been arrested and a woman is wanted after an hours-long SWAT standoff Friday morning led to the discovery of drugs in a Douglas County home, officials said.
Noah Baker, 30, of Lithia Springs, was taken into custody without incident after police found him hiding inside the attic of a home on Old Beulah Road home at the end of the five-hour standoff, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Prior to the standoff, Baker was wanted on a parole violation.
The sheriff’s office has also secured arrest warrants for 31-year-old Crystal Patrick after they found drugs in the home. Patrick, who spoke with deputies at the scene, is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Deputies originally responded to the home around 4 a.m. after neighbors called 911 about a woman walking down the street and asking for help, Douglas sheriff’s office spokesman Capt. Trent Wilson said.
Authorities arrived and determined the woman, later identified as Patrick, had been involved in a fight with Baker, her boyfriend. Baker barricaded himself inside the home and refused to come out, leading to the five-hour standoff with police.
The SWAT team was called to the scene, but negotiators were unable to coax the man outside as neighbors looked on. Deputies went into the house about 9 a.m. and found him.
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“We eventually made entry into the home and he was located in the attic,” Wilson said, adding that several guns were recovered inside.
During a subsequent search of the house, deputies found 2.5 ounces of methamphetamine and more than three pounds of marijuana, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies could not locate Patrick after the drugs were found and she remains at large.
Baker was arrested at the scene, but investigators have not said what charges he faces in connection with Friday morning’s standoff. He was booked into the Douglas County Jail but there was no record of his charges available on Friday evening.
The Douglas sheriff’s office is asking anyone who may know Patrick’s whereabouts to call the warrant division at 770-924-2121.
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