EXCLUSIVE: Five detained as tactical team serves search warrant

Posted: January 15, 2019 - 4:52 a.m.
Updated: January 15, 2019 - 3:16 p.m.

Police confirm five people were detained as the Shawnee Police Department's STAR Team served a search warrant at an eastern Shawnee house early Tuesday morning.

STAR stands for Special Tactics and Response according to the police department's website.

STAR Team members approach the front of the house just after midnight
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A man surrenders to police outside the house

Neighbors tell Operation 100 News that the house, 6809 Melrose Lane, is one that the police department is familiar with and a place where officers have recovered at least five stolen vehicles over the last three years.

Major Sam Larson says at around 7 p.m. a patrol officer checked a license plate of a vehicle parked at the address.

"The address that this vehicle was at, was an address we are familiar with in the 6800 block of Melrose," Maj. Larson said. "After an initial investigation, we decided to apply for a search warrant for the home as part of the investigation."

Operation 100 News arrived on the street shortly before 10 p.m. to find officers in defensive positions around the house and near police vehicles in the street. Officers waited outside with rifles and spotlights trained on the house. The Mercedes-Benz SUV still in the driveway with one door standing open.

Police maintained their positions until the STAR Team arrived in the department's Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) just after midnight. The team walked to the front door, where officers could be heard shouting "police, search warrant" and fists pounding on the front door.

Police shout into the house for anyone inside to come out

One of the men detained is walked to a waiting police vehicle

Major Larson says STAR Team members contacted five people at the house.

"One person was taken into custody on an outside warrant and the others were released," Maj. Larson said.

Officers remained on the scene until just after 2:30 a.m.

One of two police K-9s used to search inside the house

"The case will be reviewed by the Johnson County District Attorney's Office for potential charges," Maj. Larson said. "This is still an active investigation by our detectives and we cannot release any additional information on the case."

Larson says the stolen vehicle was recovered and will be returned to its owner.

The Shawnee Police Department's MRAP and a patrol vehicle behind
the Mercedes-Benz SUV which was reportedly stolen from Kansas City, Kansas

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Man fleeing from U.S. Marshals collides with building in Shawnee

Posted: February 12, 2014 - 3:13pm
Updated: February 13, 2014 - 1:08am

The U.S. Marshals Service detains a man Wednesday in front of Rick's Barber Shop.
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A man attempting to elude capture was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in Shawnee on Wednesday when his vehicle collided with a support pillar of a business and then plowed into a snowbank.

The incident happened around 1:15 p.m. in the parking lot of the Burlington Coat Factory, 6451 Quivira Road.

Operation 100 News report for the Shawnee Dispatch.

The man spotted the approaching vehicles and attempted to flee in his vehicle.

During his attempted escape he crashed his car into a support pillar outside of Rick's Barber Shop and then into a snowbank, where his vehicle became stuck. The man, later identified as Dillon J. Taylor, 22 of Kansas City, Kansas, was arrested without further incident.

A passenger inside the car was detained and later released at the scene.Shawnee Police were called to the scene to make a report regarding the non-injury accident involving the building.

Dillon James Taylor, 22
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The U.S. Marshals Service said Taylor was wanted on a Kansas Department of Corrections warrant.

Booking records confirm, 22-year-old, Dillon James Taylor was booked for a Kansas Department of Corrections parole violation. 

Kansas Department of Corrections records show Taylor was convicted on domestic battery with intentional bodily harm charges in 2011 and drug related charges in 2012. He served 11-months before being paroled. Records show that he failed to comply with the terms of his parole in early January 2014. 

No one was injured in the accident or during the apprehension.

At the request of the of a U.S. Marshal at the scene, some faces have been blurred to conceal identities.

The scene after one man was arrested by U.S. Marshals
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U.S. Marshals and Shawnee Police at the scene
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A U.S. Marshal and Shawnee police officer
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The scene after one man was arrested by U.S. Marshals
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Skid marks leading to the pillar where the vehicle crashed before getting stuck in the snowbank
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