LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After an hours-long standoff with Louisville Metro Police, three people were arrested in the Portland neighborhood Tuesday.
LMPD's First Division officers originally responded to a report of a suspicious man knocking on doors with a possible gun around 5 a.m. Department spokesperson Sgt. Matt Sanders identified the suspect as 23-year-old Taj-Malik Haggard.
According to Haggard's arrest citation, he had broken into a woman's home on 18th Street around 2 a.m. The woman then began pushing him out of the back door and Haggard slapped her across the face.
The citation said the woman went back inside her home and saw Haggard pull out a handgun and wave it in the air. He then left the scene, but came back later banging on the woman's windows and doors.
Officers searched the area and witnessed Haggard enter a different home that was known to police in the 1800 block of Rowan Street.
Haggard barricaded himself inside the home with two other people. The two other occupants were identified as 41-year-old Kevin McLeod and 33-year-old Justin Sheroan.
LMPD's SWAT team responded to the scene and the standoff began. Sanders said Haggard, McLeod and Sheroan eventually surrendered and exited without issue.
Officers obtained a search warrant for the home where they found multiple AR-style rifles, multiple handguns (two of which were stolen), suspected black tar heroin, marijuana and other drug paraphernalia.
Haggard has been charged with first-degree burglary. McLeod is facing several narcotics trafficking charges and possession of a handgun by a prohibited person. Sheroan was arrested for six outstanding warrants.
At the same time, the FBI executed more than a dozen arrest warrants as part of a "massive drug operation" in the Portland neighborhood and Dixie Highway area. The two investigations are not related, police said.
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