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Thursday, 21 January 2016 16:18

Man wanted in RR assault arrested after standoff

Written by Lance Martin

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Deputies take Dunlow into custody.

Seconds before deputies and investigators walked to the front door of his mobile home with a search warrant this afternoon, a man wanted by the sheriff's offices of both Halifax and Northampton came out on his porch and was arrested.

Robert Darrell Dunlow stayed inside his residence on Camp Lane off Macon Price Road in the Garysburg area for approximately two hours after deputies arrived to serve the Halifax warrants, said Captain M.D. DeLoatch Sr. of the Northampton County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff's office deployed a PA system in an effort to coax Dunlow, 43, from his residence, saying at one point his residence was surrounded and it would “be easier if you came out with your hands up.”

Deputies and investigators surrounded the mobile home as they waited for a search warrant to be delivered from Jackson.

While Dunlow never communicated with the officers outside, DeLoatch said he peeped through the windows several times.

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The sheriff's office had been looking for Dunlow ever since Detective B. Nutt of the Halifax County Sheriff's Office issued warrants for his arrest in a December 5 assault case which occurred outside Roanoke Rapids.

Nutt said she received a tip he was at his residence and passed it on to Northampton.

Dunlow stepped out of the trailer just as deputies were walking towards the front steps to serve the search warrant.

“We appreciate everything they did,” Nutt said this afternoon. “They did everything they had to do.”

Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp said, “We are fortunate to have a good working relationship with our neighbor, the Northampton County Sheriff's Office and we appreciate the cooperation. It just adds to what we already know, working together works.”

DeLoatch planned to charge Dunlow with resist, delay and obstruct as well as two warrants for felony probation violation.

Nutt's warrants are for kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and communicating threats.

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