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April 29, 2021
DULUTH, Minn. – Duluth Police say the man arrested in connection to last week’s standoff in the Piedmont Heights neighborhood has been formally charged.
According to court documents, 31-year-old Jesse Lee Fechner has been charged with felony receiving stolen property, possessing ammo/any firearm, two counts of fourth-degree assault on a police officer, and obstructing legal process with force.
Last week, Fechner was arrested after a nearly eight-hour standoff with police.
Authorities say Fechner was wanted for multiple active warrants on “significant charges” and had locked himself in a home on the 2200 block of Nanticoke Street after ignoring multiple verbal commands from law enforcement to surrender himself.
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The Duluth Police Department has identified the man arrested after a standoff Thursday as 31-year-old Jesse Lee Fechner.
Police arrested Fechner after a standoff in the Piedmont Heights neighborhood that lasted more than seven hours.
Police say Fechner was wanted on several warrants and has pending criminal cases for charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, felony domestic assault by strangulation, and misdemeanor domestic assault. He has not been convicted in those cases.
The incident began at about 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, when Fechner, wanted on significant charges barricaded himself inside the home on the 2200 block of West Nanticoke Street. Police tried to arrest him, but he ran into the house, where he remained for nearly eight hours.