Man accused of kidnapping ex-girlfriend from Lewisville home
LEWISVILLE, Texas - A 44-year-old man was arrested and charged with kidnapping after leading police on an hours-long standoff in Carrollton.
Video from neighbors caught the chaos in their Carrollton neighborhood.
SWAT teams from Lewisville, Carrollton and Dallas police spent hours working to arrest Ivan Martinez, who was wanted for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend earlier in the day.
Shirley Thompson watched the entire thing from her kitchen window. She says police were there for hours.
"They gave him tons of time," she said.
Police were there because of an incident involving Martinez and his ex-girlfriend earlier that day in Lewisville.
Witnesses told police they saw Martinez hit the woman and then push her into his car.
Police say Martinez took her back to his home in Carrollton but then let her go and called an Uber to take her home.
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Neighbor Clyde Conn says he saw police send a robot inside the house to find Martinez.
"He seemed like he was a normal guy. He hadn’t been there very long. It was weird, very weird. But they came after him. They didn’t fool around," he said. "I could hear the police say that he had barricaded himself with a couch and something else, a kitchen table, I believe."
Conn was filming when police got Martinez out of the house and arrested him around 9 p.m.
"Pretty intense for a while," he said.
Both neighbors were glad the standoff ended peacefully.
"He did come out with his hands up and, luckily, it ended without gunfire," Thompson said.
The neighbors say the house he was living in is a rental property.
Martinez is charged with aggravated kidnapping and two charges for assault of a family member. He’s currently being held at the Lewisville jail on a $25,000 bond.