A man accused of attacking his girlfriend and throwing her in a car is now in custody.
Police arrested Dominque Thornton around 6 p.m. Sunday after a tense standoff on Loblolly Drive off of Lloyds Lane.
Earlier in the day, officers said he assaulted 50-year-old Marlene French and forced her into a car. Police called the case a possible kidnapping. Heavily armed officers and the MPD SWAT team returned to the neighborhood just before 5 p.m. and surrounded his house. FOX10 News was on the scene as negotiators used an intercom to ask someone inside to come out with their hands up. The garage door was seen completely crunched and the mailbox uprooted.
Police arrested Thornton after a little more than an hour. Police said they found French, and she is safe. This isn’t Thornton’s first brush with the law. He was featured on FOX 10′s Fugitive Files back in December for first-degree robbery. According to jail records, many of his other charges include domestic violence, robberies, and kidnappings.