Charges reduced for 2 in Dayton SWAT standoff

UPDATE @ 11:41 p.m.: The charges filed against Justan Cantrell have been cut down to single counts of felony aggravated burglary and weapons possession as a felon. He remains in jail on a $100,000 bond.

The charges filed against Martha Burns have been whittled to a single counts of misdemeanor falsification and failure to appear. Her bond is $20,000.

Other charges for which Cantrell and Burns were being detained have been released or cleared by the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office, according to online jail records.

UPDATE @ 11:15 a.m. (June 2): The police report filed in the SWAT standoff provides the names of those arrested in the incident.

Justan Cantrell, 27, is in jail facing multiple charges and will be in court Tuesday afternoon. The charges include a previous warrant, and new ones; aggravated burglary, disorderly conduct, misconduct at an emergency, inducing panic, obstruction, resisting and having weapons under disability.

Martha R. Burns, 34, is being held on a previous warrant and new charges including disorderly conduct, falsification, inducing panic, obstruction, and resisting arrest. The report indicates Burns gave police officers another name when they knocked on the door to speak with her. She has two court dates. The first is Tuesday afternoon and the next is Wednesday morning, to answer to the warrant.

UPDATE @ 9:46 p.m. (June 1): The man who surrendered to Dayton police and SWAT team to end a three-hour standoff on Ottberbein Avenue had been wanted for a recent residential burglary in the neighborhood where someone in the home was assaulted, Dayton police Maj. Brian Johns said.

A woman also living at the residence on Otterbein Avenue was taken into custody when police first arrived on scene just after 5:30 p.m.

Johns said both are being taken to the Montgomery County Jail — he on a charge of felony aggravated burglary, she on charges of aggravated menacing and obstructing official police business because she told police no one else was in the residence.

Their names and ages were not immediately available.

A woman who identified herself as the mother of the female who was arrested said her daughter’s two sons were in the residence as well. They were in the custody of police. There was no word on what will happen with them.

The male, who surrendered after a little more than three hours, relented after police communicated with him via a bullhorn and called him on his cell phone, Johns said.

“I think he was just scared…. He thought his girlfriend would lie for him and we wouldn’t think he was there and we’d go away. But once we’re here, we don’t go away,” the major said.

UPDATE @ 9:05 p.m.: A man who was the focus of the Dayton police and SWAT team has surrendered. He gave up after being holed up in a residence on Otterbein Avenue a little more than three hours.

FIRST REPORT

Police and the Dayton SWAT team are on the scene of a situation on Otterbein Avenue.

Officers on scene are telling us they are not at liberty to say what the situation might involve. Police were dispatched just after 6 p.m. The request for the SWAT team was issued about 6:15 p.m.

We’ve seen one person, a woman, placed in handcuffs and taken into custody.

Officers have their weapons drawn and a hostage negotiation team has been requested.

People in the neighborhood are being moved away from where police and the SWAT team are focusing their attention.

Police have set up a staging area on Otterbein Avenue at Stanford Place. The area of investigation has been expanded from Stanford Place to Karwin Drive.

We have a crew on scene. We will update this report as we get information.