WATCH: Man arrested after one-hour standoff following traffic stop

Hot Springs police SWAT team officers stand guard to keep spectators back in the parking lot at 1300 Albert Pike Road shortly after an allegedly armed suspect was arrested following a one-hour standoff Monday morning. - Photo by Mark Gregory of The Sentinel-Record
Hot Springs police SWAT team officers stand guard to keep spectators back in the parking lot at 1300 Albert Pike Road shortly after an allegedly armed suspect was arrested following a one-hour standoff Monday morning. - Photo by Mark Gregory of The Sentinel-Record

A local man who allegedly threatened an auto repair shop employee at gunpoint was arrested Monday morning after a one-hour armed standoff with Hot Springs police in the 1300 block of Albert Pike Road following a traffic stop.

Keion Lajuan Reed, 24, who lists a Terry Street address, was taken into custody shortly after 9:30 a.m. and later charged with two felony counts of first-degree terroristic threatening and one count of aggravated assault, each punishable by up to six years in prison, and a misdemeanor count of obstructing governmental operations.

Reed, who lists no prior felony history, was being held on an $8,000 bond and is set to appear Jan. 10 in Garland County District Court. According to court records, he plead no contest to a misdemeanor count of terroristic threatening on Oct. 20, 2021, and was sentenced to one year of supervised probation. He was previously sentenced to six months' probation on July 1, 2019, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of third-degree battery.

According to the probable cause affidavit, shortly after 8 a.m. Monday, HSPD Officer Christopher Savage responded to Hecke's Auto Repair, 500 Summer St., regarding an aggravated assault that had just occurred.

An employee there told Savage that, at around 7:50 a.m., an unknown male in a white older model Cadillac with large chrome wheels had pulled into the lot of the business.

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The employee told the man they couldn't work on his vehicle and the male allegedly produced a silver handgun and pointed it at the employee. The first employee informed a second employee what was happening and the second employee came outside and he told police he saw the man still displaying the handgun to both of them.

The second employee said the man never pointed the gun at him, but he saw the gun. The male then left the scene in the Cadillac. Savage observed surveillance footage of the incident at the business and broadcast a description of the vehicle.

Shortly before 8:30 a.m., HSPD Cpl. Taylor Gates responded to the 1300 block of Albert Pike Road regarding the suspect vehicle and was told by dispatchers the employees from the business wanted to pursue charges.

Gates spotted a car matching the description traveling westbound through the parking lot of LakePointe Church, 1343 Albert Pike, and initiated a felony traffic stop on the vehicle.

The driver and sole occupant, later identified as Reed, allegedly refused to follow commands from Gates to put his hands in the air, throw the keys out of the window and to step out of the vehicle.

"These commands were given to Reed numerous times and he verbally responded that he would not comply," the affidavit said.

A SWAT/Crisis Negotiations Team activation occurred and a standoff ensued with other agencies, including Garland County sheriff's deputies and Arkansas State police, assisting in sealing off the area around the incident.

At one point, Reed reportedly threw a firearm from the vehicle "that matched the description from the previously reported incident" of a silver semi-automatic handgun. Savage also noted Reed matched the suspect description given by the employees.

Shortly after 9:30 a.m., Reed "had to be removed from the vehicle" and was taken into custody and transported to the Garland County Detention Center where he was booked in shortly after 1:30 p.m.

  photo  The Hot Springs police SWAT team’s Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, or MRAP, is seen shortly after an one-hour standoff with an armed suspect at 1300 Albert Pike Road Monday morning. - Photo by Donald Cross of The Sentinel-Record
 
 
  photo  Keion L. Reed - Submitted photo
 
 

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