Unified Police officers and a SWAT team were in a standoff early Monday afternoon with a knife-wielding shoplifting suspect in Riverton.
UPD Lt. Brian Lohrke said the incident began when officers were called to the Shopco store near 5800 South and Redwood Road, where the suspect had allegedly threatened store employees with a knife when they confronted him about 8 a.m. as he tried to walk out with unspecified items.
The man then fled, jumped into a car and sped away, but not before his license plate number was taken down by witnesses. UPD used that information to trace him to a home at 1382 W.