SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - A four-hour standoff in downtown Sioux Falls ended early this morning with one man’s arrest.
Police say 71-year-old Ronnie Lee Mendenwalt threatened officers with a butcher knife and then barricaded himself up in his L’Abri apartment at 6th and Phillips.
Mendenwalt surrendered to police around four this morning and was arrested on three counts of aggravated assault.
Police deployed SWAT and closed the 6th and Phillips intersection to traffic during the standoff.