{"id":1390799,"date":"2025-02-15T16:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1390799"},"modified":"2025-02-18T03:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:19:02","slug":"standoff-suspect-arrested-in-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1390799","title":{"rendered":"Standoff suspect arrested in Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1390800\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/longviewstandoff-225x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/longviewstandoff-225x180.png 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/longviewstandoff.png 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8211; The Longview Police Department said they arrested a man on Friday after he allegedly pointed a rifle at officers from a home on Tupelo Drive. According to our news partner KETK, Longview PD officers were responding to a domestic incident in the 200 block of Tupelo Drive at around 8:50 p.m. on Friday when they first made contact with Benjamin Howell, 41 of Longview.<\/p>\n<p>After the officers arrived at the Tupelo Drive home, Howell reportedly fled inside and then pointed his rifle out at the officers. According to a Longview PD press release, the officers then took cover and called for the Longview SWAT unit and the Negotiations unit.<\/p>\n<p>Officers reportedly heard one gunshot from inside the home and after negotiators made repeated attempts to contact Howell, the SWAT team had to resolve the standoff through non-lethal force measures, Longview PD said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Howell was then arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and continuous violence against the family, according to Gregg County Jail records. He\u2019s currently being held in the Gregg County Jail on a $200,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Longview PD thanked the Gregg County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Longview Fire Department for their assistance with the standoff.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__content\">\n<div id=\"acm-ad-tag-mr1_ab-mr1_ab\" data-slot=\"{&quot;is_oop&quot;:false,&quot;is_companion&quot;:true,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[[1280,0],[[300,250],[620,366]]],[[1024,0],[[300,250],[620,366]]],[[768,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]],[[641,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]]],&quot;size&quot;:[300,250]}\" data-unit=\"\/5678\/nx.ketk\/news\/crime___public_safety\" data-fbonly=\"false\" data-refids=\"\" data-not-refids=\"\" data-targeting=\"{&quot;kw&quot;:&quot;longview-pd-arrests-man-after-standoff-domestic-violence-incident&quot;,&quot;pos&quot;:&quot;mr1_ab&quot;,&quot;fold&quot;:&quot;atf&quot;,&quot;category&quot;:&quot;crime_public_safety&quot;}\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cFamily violence is serious, and the Longview Police Department encourages any victim or anyone aware of such abuse occurring to please report it immediately to local authorities,\u201d Longview PD said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; The Longview Police Department said they arrested a man on Friday after he allegedly pointed a rifle at officers from a home on Tupelo Drive. According to our news partner KETK, Longview PD officers were responding to a domestic incident in the 200 block of Tupelo Drive at around 8:50 p.m. on Friday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1390799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Standoff suspect arrested in Longview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1390801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/longviewstandoff-225x180.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 06:27:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/longviewstandoff-225x180.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390802,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390799\/revisions\/1390802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}