Darryl PutmanA 19-year-old Chattanooga man wanted on a number of charges ran from police before barricading himself inside a stranger's apartment and finally surrendering Saturday night.
Darryl Putman Jr. is being held at the Hamilton County Jail without bond after Chattanooga police arrested him just four days after he was the subject of a Crime Stoppers program news release for the second time in 2014.
Police identified a Chevrolet Caprice traveling on Lee Highway as matching the description of a vehicle involved in several burglaries. When the car made a quick turn into an empty lot between two businesses, an officer followed it and approached the three occupants.
All three, Putman included, ran toward the Rustic Village Apartments complex while police chased them. The resident of apartment 1406 told officers that Putman entered that apartment.
Officers repeatedly commanded Putman, who is known to carry a handgun, to exit with his hands up, but he refused and tried to escape through the balcony before finally exiting the apartment more than 30 minutes after an officer first identified the vehicle.
Police first sought Putman in January on charges of burglary, vandalism and evading arrest. Since then he was charged with vandalism in March, theft in April and burglary, vandalism, evading arrest and aggravated assault in May.
He pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary in 2013 but had his four-year sentence suspended.
Putman is scheduled to appear May 22 in Hamilton County General Sessions Court.