When a Newberg, Oregon, police officer started his night shift Wednesday last week, he had no idea he’d spend five hours on the phone with a barricaded man 1,000 miles away in Riverton, Wyoming.
Police went to the Riverton home of Ron Allington, 62, at about 5 p.m. April 16 to arrest him on outstanding warrants, then things went wrong.
Allington’s elderly mother answered the door. She was removed from the home while officers went to Allington’s bedroom door and ordered him to come out, says an evidentiary affidavit that has since been filed in an aggravated assault case against the man…