Police come up empty after standoff in Lakewood  Staff
writerJuly 8, 2013   A police standoff lasted almost four hours
in Lakewood on Sunday and ended in a no-decision. The man
officers were seeking was gone.  Lakewood Police were searching
for a 50-year-old man at a home in the 8600 block of Custer Road
Southwest. The man stabbed an acquaintance earlier in the
afternoon, police spokesman Steve Mauer said. The stabbing
victim survived, and was expected to recover, Mauer added.  The
News Tribune is not naming the man because he has not been
charged with a crime. Past court records show a history of
domestic disputes at the address involving several individuals,
including the man police are seeking.  The police presence
blocked traffic in the area for several hours.  Teams of
searchers entered a shed, trailer and the main home on the
property. They didn’t find the man.  “SWAT ended up breaching
and going into the house, searched a shed and a trailer and an
RV,” Mauer said. “Our suspect was not there.”  By late