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Kansas man jailed after standoff with deputies, SWAT team

James Glacken, Obstructing legal process or official duty, Parole violation, Arrested 12/15.
James Glacken, Obstructing legal process or official duty, Parole violation, Arrested 12/15.

GEARY COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Geary County are investigating a suspect after a standoff while trying to deliver a warrant.

On Thursday evening, sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Clarks Creek Road southeast of Junction City in reference to a warrant.

“He spotted officers that were down there when he was leaving the residence and then he got out of his car, went in to the house and barricaded himself in.” said Geary County Undersheriff Brad Clark.

“We called the SWAT team out and the negotiating team and they took threw a phone into a back window and eventually just talked him out of the house,” said Clark.

Deputies arrested James Glacken, 30, without injury on a warrant for a parole violation, and obstructing legal process or official duty.

He is being held in the Geary County Detention Center.

No officers were injured, according to Clark.

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