{"id":982545,"date":"2021-03-22T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=982545"},"modified":"2021-03-23T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:39:00","slug":"east-texas-man-arrested-after-nearly-4-hour-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=982545","title":{"rendered":"East Texas man arrested after nearly 4 hour standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-982546\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Adair-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Adair-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Adair.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>WILLS POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201c An East Texas man is behind bars after a four-hour standoff with Van Zandt County deputies early Sunday morning. According to our news partner KETK, Sheriff Steve Hendrix said deputies responded to a domestic disturbance situation on CR 2627, just off I-20 near Wills Point, at 7:15 p.m. Saturday night. Monte Adair, 52, allegedly pointed a long gun at deputies, who immediately took cover. Sheriff Hendrix came to the scene along with the Wills Point Police K-9 unit and the State Park Police.<!--more--> The Forney-Terrell Joint SWAT Team was also called in for assistance when Adair refused to respond to the deputies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 commands outside the building. Just after 1:30 a.m., Adair was taken into custody after \u00e2\u20ac\u0153non-lethal tactics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were used to end the standoff \u00e2\u20ac\u0153without loss of life or serious injury.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hendrix did not specify what this entailed. Adair is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a public servant and assault causing bodily injury to a family member. He is being held on a $350,000 bond in the Van Zandt County Jail in Canton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILLS POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201c An East Texas man is behind bars after a four-hour standoff with Van Zandt County deputies early Sunday morning. According to our news partner KETK, Sheriff Steve Hendrix said deputies responded to a domestic disturbance situation on CR 2627, just off I-20 near Wills Point, at 7:15 p.m. Saturday night. Monte Adair, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=982545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas man arrested after nearly 4 hour standoff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":982548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Adair-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas man arrested after nearly 4 hour standoff","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:57:15","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\/2021\/03\/Adair-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas man arrested after nearly 4 hour standoff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982545","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=982545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982547,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982545\/revisions\/982547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/982548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}