A Great Bend man is in custody after a standoff with law enforcement Wednesday evening in the 3800 block of 12th Street. He reportedly threatened two females with a knife and then barricaded himself inside the residence after they fled to safety.

The call to law enforcement was received at approximately 5:40 p.m. Wednesday evening.

Officers were alerted to a report of two female subjects being held hostage at a residence located at 3821 12th St. in Great Bend. Information dispatched to responding officers stated that the female subjects had escaped to safety and that a male subject armed with a knife was alone in the room.

Audra Musil, an eyewitness who had parked in Walgreens parking lot adjacent to the residence at approximately 6 p.m., noted that the street had been blocked off to Cleveland St. and several officers were stationed at the front door of the residence. Great Bend K-9 Niko had also been deployed.

Contact was established with the male suspect in the interior of the residence who was told to come out. More law enforcement officers arrived over the next 40 minutes. A bean bag round was fired and the north front window broken in preparation to use tear gas, but the suspect surrendered. Emergency medical service team members then entered the residence, followed by law enforcement officers who then took the suspect into custody without incident.  

Earlier that afternoon, GBPD received a report of a vehicle stolen from that same address. 

The male suspect, identified as Adrian J. Lemuz, 44, was booked into Barton County Jail on charges of theft of a motor vehicle with bond set at $5,000 cash or surety and charges of aggravated burglary, interference with a law enforcement officer and criminal deprivation of property with bond set at $75,000 cash or surety.