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UPDATE: Suspect in Saline County manhunt turns himself in


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Updated: 9/11/2009 10:35 pm Published: 9/11/2009 3:49 pm
Suspect in Saline County manhunt turned himeself in Friday night. Saline County Deputies searched for James Flowers for nearly six hours.  The search took place near the Pulaski/Saline County line.

The rural wooded area of Saline County is normally peaceful and quiet. Friday that was disrupted when investigators say a man took off in to the woods armed with two guns after threatening deputies and even his grandmother. Saline County sheriff's deputies got the call at 1:00 Friday afternoon.

“He basically took his grandmother hostage and the residents with a gun,” Saline County Sheriff Bruce Pennington said. Pennington say Flowers didn’t stop there.  “He made a statement that if police arrived he would shoot law enforcement,” Pennington said.

That’s when the sheriff initiated a multi-agency manhunt to find the 23-year-old man people in Saline County know well.

“He's been terrorizing ever since he was a little kid. People in the neighborhood and all over Paron,” neighbor Jodi Russell said.

“That was the first thing I was warned about when I moved out here was about this guy,” Neighbor Terry Smith said.

Sheriff Pennington says this week alone his office got several calls about Flowers. “From drug activity, fighting with neighbors to breaking and entering,” Pennington said.

This latest event brought out search dogs, horses, even a helicopter to get him off the streets.  “He's lived in this area his whole life he knows the woods better than anybody,“ neighbor James Bozeman said.

Deputies called off the search around 7PM. Shortly after Flowers turned himself into the Saline County Sheriff's Office.
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Champion - 9/12/2009 1:54 PM
This sounds like someone that needs to be taken off the streets permanently. This is the type of behavior that escalates into homicide. Obviously, he is a very disturbed person. I hope this story gets the attention that it needs before more people are hurt.

Murtis - 9/12/2009 12:07 PM
James Flowers has been a terror to this area for many years & his activities have been reported to the sheriff many times & he has done nothing about it. I remember a comment the Sheriff made about Paron not being an area were he could justify regular patrols or required police protection. This was in response to a request that he place a substation at the Paron Community Center. We have an on going drug problem & if we call the Sheriff it takes at lease 25 minutes for a deputy to arrive, if they come at all. Flowers activities have been reported and in most cases deputies did not even take a report. I do not blame the deputies I blame our Sheriff & so do most of the people in the Paron area. It will show up in our votes at the next election.

hootie - 9/12/2009 10:43 AM
So.....with a history like this ya'll reckon Saline Co will let him bail out? Be on the loose again? Trust him to be a good boy til his court date? Sentence him to 15 and make him serve 5? Perhapps upon his release he should be relocated like a bad bear that won't stop eating the neighbor's pets.

charliebrown - 9/12/2009 9:25 AM
he is lucky he hasn't broken into my house and i catch him...his grandmother and his family would be rid of the problem....i don't support drug dealers, users,and theives..and rbubj is right he...he needs to know what it feels like to the on the other one of the stick..

rbudj - 9/12/2009 8:18 AM
the problem with this guy (i don't know him) is that he has never tasted his own blood. I'd have him straightened out in about 3 minutes. I love showing bullies what it means to BE bullied.

timberroad - 9/11/2009 9:18 PM
he has even shot up our shed broken in neghbior house numerous times he lives a cross the street

hover - 9/11/2009 5:47 PM
What a strange name...
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