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Law enforcement officers confer while occasionally using a loudspeaker to communicate with barricaded suspect Markes A. Cantrell, who was later taken into custody without incident from the residence at 329 Main Street in Waitsburg.
WAITSBURG–Columbia County Sheriff's deputies responded to an incident here to assist neighboring agencies with an incident involving a 24-year-old Waitsburg man alleged to be threatening family and others with a baseball bat on October 10.
Following the multi-hour standoff at 329 Main Street, police arrested Markes A. Cantrell of Waitsburg after locating him in hiding in the attic, allegedly with the metal bat, according to a Walla Walla Sheriff's Office press release.
Columbia County Sheriff's Office deputies, Walla Walla Police Department Officers, and Crisis Response Team members responded to assist. Waitsburg Fire assisted by bringing a ladder to rescue the second female from the roof.
According to the Sheriff's Office release, at 1:22 p.m., a female in Waitsburg called dispatch to report she had to flee her home in fear for her life. The woman reported that her son, Cantrell, "was inside with a bat smashing the kitchen and that she feared he would beat her to death with the metal bat."
Cantrell, the witness informed police had allegedly "been high on meth all night."
Two other females were also in the house, one was able to escape, and one was forced to climb out a window and hide on the roof, WWSO reported.
After hours of calling into the house and obtaining a search warrant, using WWPD K9 Farel, Cantrell was located and taken into custody without incident.
He was transported to Walla Walla County Corrections where he was booked on Felony Harassment DV, Obstructing Law Enforcement and an unrelated warrant, according to the police release.
Bail was set at $10,000 in a Walla Walla County Superior Court hearing Friday.
