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Somerset Fugitive Caught After Three-Hour Standoff On Lenox Place

STREETS CLOSED – Police on February 18 blocked part of Girard Avenue and Clinton Street, as well as Lenox Place, during a three-hour standoff with a Lenox Place man wanted since May 2025.

A 34-year-old Somerset man wanted since the summer of 2025 was arrested February 18 while hiding in an unoccupied home on Girard Avenue, police said.

The man, Kenneth D. James of Lenox Place, escaped from his home, jumped a fence, and entered the unoccupied home behind his after a three-hour standoff with police, according to a press release from the Somerset County prosecutor’s Office.

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