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Police have standoff with man with warrants

Thursday, November 19, 2009
Dyersburg State Gazette
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Last week, Dyersburg Police had a brief standoff with a man that had several warrants out for his arrest, causing the department's Special Response Team (SRT) to be placed on alert and a crisis negotiator to be called in.

The incident began around 8 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, when police were tipped off by a bounty hunter saying the suspect, Rodrick Moorer, 31, 115 Rucker St., was at his residence and had warrants.

The warrants were two for failure to appear and one for violation of probation.

Moorer slammed the door shut to his house after he noticed the police arrive.

One officer approached the door and heard two dogs barking and noises that sounded like Moorer was barricading himself inside.

Officers surrounded the house and the commander of the SRT team arrived, as did the department's crisis negotiator, Shane Anderson. The SRT team was placed on standby as Anderson tried to negotiate with Moorer over a PA system. Several of Moorer's family members arrived on the scene and contact was made with him by cell phone.

He finally agreed to surrender peacefully and came out of the front door with his hands up.

After he was taken into custody, Moorer acknowledged he had crawled into the insulation area, where the air conditioning unit was, in preparation of being gassed.

He is currently being held in the Dyer County Jail and will appear in Dyersburg City Court on Friday, Nov. 20.

© Copyright 2009 Dyersburg State Gazette

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why put him in jail? The courts will just let him out on probation.

-- Posted by CitizenTn on Thu, Nov 19, 2009, at 5:44 PM

I agree, CitizenTn, they will be put on probation. They need to clean up the prisons also, there are people that have life w/o parole, they should go ahead and be put to death, after all their going to die in prison anyway.

-- Posted by responder4u on Fri, Nov 20, 2009, at 8:27 AM

ya know you have a good point there, instead of letting prisoners out early to save on taxes, put the ones to sleep that have been sitting on death row for yrs. Do like Tx does, put one to sleep in the am, clean off the needle and table put another to sleep in the afternoon. lets quit feeding a dead soul..

-- Posted by senior remark on Fri, Nov 20, 2009, at 12:24 PM

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