{"id":9276,"date":"2012-12-20T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T20:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2012-12-21T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T20:22:51","slug":"new-town-nd-standoff-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9276","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Machinery Helps End New Town Stand Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NewTown.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7560\" title=\"NewTown\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NewTown-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP Dec 21, 2012) &#8211; Authorities say a front-end loader was used to break into a New Town home to end a standoff with an armed man barricaded inside.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Town Police Chief Art Walgren\u00a0says \u00a0law enforcement used the loader Thursday to &#8220;dismantle the house.&#8221; He says attempts to use tear gas failed during the daylong standoff.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Schools in the community went on lockdown during the incident.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The FBI identified the man taken into custody as 32-year-old Michael Jason Smith.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Authorities say Smith faces narcotics charges in Colorado. Smith, who had previously been convicted of a felony in Colorado, also faces a charge of possessing a firearm in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previously<\/p>\n<p>NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP Dec 20, 2012) \u2013 A man who barricaded himself into a North Dakota home prompting the lockdown of several local schools is in police custody.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMichael Jason Smith came out of the house shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smith was wanted in Colorado on charges mostly dealing with narcotics. He was at a home in New Town when law enforcement officials arrived, and he barricaded himself in the home.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Schools in the community went on lockdown during the incident.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FBI spokesman Kyle Loven says Smith may now face charges in North Dakota and Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP Dec 21, 2012) &#8211; Authorities say a front-end loader was used to break into a New Town home to end a standoff with an armed man barricaded inside. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Town Police Chief Art Walgren\u00a0says \u00a0law enforcement used the loader Thursday to &#8220;dismantle the house.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}