{"id":3419,"date":"2016-04-10T20:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T04:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2016-04-10T20:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T04:53:29","slug":"independence-man-arrested-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/independence-man-arrested-standoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence man arrested after standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-10-at-9.34.30-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-10 at 9.34.30 PM\" width=\"309\" height=\"230\" class=\"wp-image-3457 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>By: Conner Williams \r\nEditor-in-Chief<\/pre>\n<p>An Independence man was arrested on multiple charges last weekend after a nearly six hour standoff between police authorities in Independence.<\/p>\n<p>49-year-old James Michael Munoz was taken into custody just after 5 a.m. at a residence on 6th Street near Monmouth Street, six hours after officers were originally dispatched the night before.<\/p>\n<p>Munoz entered the residence when officers arrived and refused to come out, according to a statement by the Independence Police Department.<br \/>\nNeighborhood residents were notified and evacuated in preparation for a response from the Salem SWAT team.<\/p>\n<p>Munoz eventually came out and was taken into custody without incident. He was taken to the Polk County Jail pending charges of Unlawful Use of a Weapon, Menacing, Coercion, Fourth-Degree Assault, and Reckless Endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>The Salem Police Department, Monmouth Police Department, Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and the Dallas Police Department all assisted on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at journaleditor@wou.edu or on Twitter @journalEIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Independence man was arrested on multiple charges last weekend after a nearly six hour standoff between police authorities in Independence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}