BIGGS JUNCTION, Ore. — Authorities say they have arrested a suspect following a standoff with members of a SWAT team along Highway 97 near Biggs Junction.
KPTV-TV reports 24-year-old Dean Allen Bromley, of The Dalles, Ore., was arrested Wednesday on an unauthorized use of a motor vehicle charge.
An Oregon State Police sergeant had stopped to check on Bromley who was allegedly parked in a stolen van along the highway.
Police say Bromley initially complied with the trooper’s orders, but then he got back inside the van and refused to come out.