NEOSHO FALLS — A lengthy police chase and extended standoff ended with the arrest of a 38-year-old woman who apparently set fire to the house in which she was hiding.
Law enforcement officers arrested Tava Glover, 38, shortly after 2 p.m. Monday at the house on the west side of Neosho Falls.
The chase came after law enforcement in Woodson County were notified the woman was wanted for suspicion of attempted first degree murder in Johnson County.
Detective Jeffrey McCullough of the Woodson County Sheriff’s Department said the Johnson County incident occurred earlier Monday morning.
The woman’s mother lives in Woodson County, so local deputies went to that house and spotted the woman, which precipitated a lengthy chase that eventually ventured it into northwest Allen County before ending in Neosho Falls.
Glover then reportedly barricaded herself in a two-story house owned by Todd Lacrone, who was not at home.
McCullough said Glover fired at least two shots from a weapon during the standoff.
The standoff lasted until about 2 p.m. when officers noticed smoke coming from the home from a fire she had apparently set intentionally.
Glover attempted to flee the structure from a window, Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy said, but was quickly subdued by K-9 units brought in by the Kansas Highway Patrol.
Glover was not hurt during the arrest “aside from a couple of bite marks,” Murphy said.
In addition to KHP, and its critical response team, officers from Woodson, Anderson, Coffey Allen counties and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks were at the scene.
A distraught Lacrone said the incident left him without a home or many belongings
“I was at work and I got a phone call that somebody broke into my house,” a distraught Lacrone told a Register reporter afterward. “I lost everything I own because she went crazy, tried to outrun the police and act stupid and break into my house. She tried to steal my car, too, is what they’re telling me.”
Lacrone said he was at work when he received the call Monday morning that Glover had sought refuge in his house.
“I was in the middle of pulling an oil well,” said Lacrone, who was still decked out in his work clothing several hours afterward.”
