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Hours-long SWAT standoff ends with man’s arrest

Dwight Land
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UPDATE at 10:32 p.m.: Chattanooga police say an hours-long SWAT standoff has now ended.

A K9 Officer was deployed and apprehended the suspect.

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UPDATE at 8:57 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12: Chattanooga police say a SWAT standoff at a home on Memphis Drive is still ongoing.

Some people in nearby homes have been evacuated, police said.

There is no indication that the suspect has anyone else’s in the home with him.

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A man involved in an early December SWAT standoff is again at the center of an ongoing standoff today at the same location, Chattanooga police say.

Dwight Land, 48, has barricaded himself in a home in the 3900 block of Memphis Drive.

On Dec. 4, the standoff lasted for nearly two-and-a-half hours, the Times Free Press previously reported.