Man pleads innocent to failure-to-comply after standoff

WARREN

Juvar King, 34, of Fourth Street Southwest, pleaded innocent Monday in Warren Municipal Court to felony failure to comply with the orders of a police officer after police spent more than eight hours trying to arrest him Friday night and Saturday morning.

A Warren police officer spotted King in his car at 9:54 p.m. Friday and followed him because of suspicion he was driving on a suspended license.

King got out of the car and fled on foot on Fourth Street near his home, where the officer heard a door slam shut.

Officers surrounded the home and eventually called out the Mahoning Valley Crisis Response Team because King was barricaded inside, police said.

The response team arrived at 4:19 a.m., and went into the house to remove King at 6:34 a.m.

King has been charged 32 times in Warren Municipal Court since 1996 on criminal and traffic matters and has been sentenced to prison multiple times in Trumbull County on drug-trafficking charges.