COWLEY COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Cowley County are investigating an aggravated assault and have a suspect in custody.

The Arkansas City Police Department arrested a barricaded suspect after an eight-hour standoff late Monday night into early Tuesday morning, according to a media release.

Police arrested Adrian Sotelo, 29, was on two counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal possession of a firearm following an eight-hour standoff that ended early Tuesday.

Just before11:30 p.m. Monday police were dispatched to 1311 South B Street in Arkansas City for a report of a suspect who pulled a gun on a man and woman and threatened to shoot them, according to a media release.

The suspect then went to his home at 626 South C Street and barricaded himself inside with his mother.

South Central Kansas SWAT was called to the scene and negotiations began with the suspect.

A command post was set up at the intersection of B Street and Madison Avenue. Negotiations continued from about 1 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., when the suspect, Adrian Sotelo, finally surrendered to police at the scene.

Sotelo is being held in the Cowley County Jail in Winfield in lieu of $45,000 bond.

In 2008, he was convicted of Aggravated Indecent Liberties with a child and Furnishing alcohol to minor for illicit purposes in Harvey County, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.