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Overnight  Police Standoff

Overnight Police Standoff

A standoff at a Topeka home ends peacefully as police take a federal fugitive into custody.

Around 8-30 Thursday night, officers were patroling near the 200 block of southeast 35th Terrace when they noticed a man they believed to be a federal fugitive.

When police tried making contact with him, the man ran inside a home with nine other people inside.

Police set up a perimeter and the other nine people came out of the house.

Nogatiators eventually coaxed the suspect..28 year old Quinton Lawton out of the house around 11-30 PM.

He was wanted for a narcotics charge and was booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections.
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