HENDERSON, Ky. - Climbing into a dryer is apparently much easier than getting out of one.
According to police, Billy Sutton, a 44-year-old Henderson resident, was removed from such an appliance Tuesday night -- with the help of a federal task force and members of the Henderson Police Department's Emergency Response Team -- following a six-hour standoff in the Niagara area.
HPD Detective Eric Ramsey, a member of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, said Sutton was wanted on warrants from Vanderburgh County. The agency received information that Sutton was at a residence in the 4900 section of Kentucky 416.
The task force -- equipped with a search warrant -- responded to the residence around 1 p.m.
Ramsey said law enforcement were able to confirm that Sutton was in the residence. No one else was inside, he said.
"We had negotiators on scene, but Sutton never talked to them. We never had an open line of communication with him," he said.
"Once we realized we had a barricaded subject, we requested assistance from the Henderson Police Department's Emergency Response Team ... we handed the scene over to them," Ramsey said.
HPD Major Jermaine Poynter, who works with ERT, said, "We got a call from the U.S. Marshals Task Force for Emergency Response Team assistance. There was a barricaded subject in a residence. We responded about 2:30 or 3 p.m."
After several hours of waiting and failed attempts to talk Sutton out of the house, Poynter said pepper gas was fired into the residence. Authorities said Sutton still did not come out.
Finally, the response team entered the residence around 7 p.m., Poynter said. "We located him hiding in the dryer. At that point, he was taken into custody."
Sutton faces a charge of being a fugitive from another state.
Ramsey said Sutton had been in the dryer for at least four hours.
When asked if Sutton, who is about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds was stuck in the appliance, Ramsey said, "I don't know that he was stuck, but he couldn't have gotten out quick on his own ... we assisted him."
DUI and a toddler
In February, Henderson police arrested Sutton after an alleged intoxicated driving incident.
According to authorities, Sutton was stopped shortly after 9 p.m. when a city officer spotted an SUV driving south on U.S. 41 without headlights.
The vehicle was stopped behind the Economy Inn, where authorities said, "the driver, Billy Sutton, fled the scene. He was later apprehended behind the car wash on Barret Boulevard."
HPD said during a search of the vehicle, officers found a glass pipe with suspected methamphetamine residue in it. The pipe was allegedly found "just feet away from a toddler who was sitting in the back seat," a news release said.
Officials said there was another adult in the vehicle so the toddler was not left alone when Sutton allegedly fled.
Information on the adjudication of this case was not available.
Another day, another standoff
This week's standoff is the second time in three years in which Sutton has been the focal point of a stalemate with law enforcement.
In July of 2017 while on federal supervised release, Sutton was accused of passing a bad check at Walmart. Henderson police received information that he was staying at the Sugar Creek Inn on U.S. 41-North. A woman was also staying in the room.
Detective Jake Isonhood, the lead investigator in the case, said police had information that Sutton was "armed and potentially dangerous."
When the occupants refused to come out, authorities obtained a search warrant for the room.
"The female eventually came out of the room, Isonhood said, but Sutton refused to leave it and would not speak with authorities."
The standoff was at least three hours long with Sutton barricading himself in the hotel room by pushing the dresser and other furniture in front of the door, police said.
Finally, Sutton surrendered.
"When he came out, we detained him," Isonhood told The Gleaner. "Then with the search warrant in hand, we went into the room. During the search, we found baggies, scales and a loaded .40-caliber handgun in a mattress."
Ramsey said a quantity of crystal methamphetamine was found in the bathroom on the floor next to the toilet, and $900 in cash was found in the room.
He was charged with first-degree trafficking, being a felon in possession of a handgun and tampering with physical evidence.
At the time of the 2017 standoff, Sutton was on federal supervised release. He had served time from charges in connection with a two-year multi-agency investigation that began in 2009 and ended in 2011 with several arrests here and in Georgia.
In 2012, Sutton received 60 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, after participating in a drug pipeline that extended from Atlanta to western Kentucky. Officials said that pipeline was the avenue through which at least 30 kilograms of powder cocaine, as well as crack cocaine, was funneled into Henderson and Owensboro.
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