From FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth · Tracy DeLatte · · 1m 20s
A midnight chase ends in a backyard shed
A narcotics stop turned into a two-hour SWAT standoff on a quiet Richardson cul-de-sac.
In brief
A narcotics stop turned into a two-hour SWAT standoff on a quiet Richardson cul-de-sac. A routine traffic stop in a narcotics case escalated into an overnight SWAT operation, and it ended with an arrest and no injuries. Originally reported by FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth.
A traffic stop he refused
Around 11 p.m. Tuesday, Richardson police tried to pull over a man wanted in a narcotics investigation. He would not stop, and a brief chase followed.
Into a stranger's backyard
Stotts eventually stopped his vehicle and ran into the backyard of a home in the 100 block of West Shore Place, then barricaded himself inside a shed.
SWAT takes him at 1 a.m.
SWAT officers took 45-year-old Clayton Stotts into custody about two hours after the pursuit began. Nobody was reported hurt.
Two charges, drugs on both
Stotts faces charges of evading arrest and manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance. Police said they found narcotics on him and in his vehicle.
A neighbor with squirrels
Sandy Romo was up doing midnight feedings for her wildlife rescue when her kids heard the sirens. Her video showed more than a dozen police vehicles filling the cul-de-sac.
“there was a car speeding really fast with police chasing them in front of our house”
She sent a cheesecake
Grateful for how fast police moved, Romo dropped off a signature cheesecake from her catering business at the department Wednesday afternoon. The investigation continues.
The takeaway
A routine traffic stop in a narcotics case escalated into an overnight SWAT operation, and it ended with an arrest and no injuries.
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