Female escaped kidnapper, leading to barricaded standoff in Lexington, SC police say

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Female escaped kidnapper, leading to barricaded standoff in Lexington, SC police say

An hours-long standoff ended Sunday night when a man who had

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was taken into custody and charged with kidnapping and assaulting a female victim, according to the

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The barricaded standoff happened in the

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, police said Monday in a news release. That’s in a part of Lexington between U.S. 378 and Old Cherokee Road.

At about 7 p.m., officers responded to a home following a call about female who had been kidnapped and held against her will for several hours, according to the release. The victim had been assaulted before she was able to escape and call law enforcement officers, police said.

Further information on the victim’s condition was not available.

Officers’ attempts to contact the man barricaded inside the home were unsuccessful, and members of the police department’s Emergency Services Team and the Crisis Negotiations Unit were called, according to the release.

Further negotiations with the barricaded man, later identified as 57-year-old Lexington resident Keith Dwayne Miles, ******* to lead to his surrender, according to police. The Emergency Services Team then

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police said at 11 p.m.

Specific information about how Miles was removed from the barricaded home was not available, but after being forced out he was taken to Lexington Medical Center for treatment and evaluation, according to the release.

No other injuries were reported in that standoff that prompted police to temporarily

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Miles has since been

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in the Lexington County Detention Center, jail records show.

Miles was charged with kidnapping as well as ******** and battery (of a high and aggravated nature), police said.

No bond has been set and Miles ******** behind bars, jail records show.

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