Wanted pair arrested after SW Bend standoff, threats

A wanted man staying at a detached garage in southwest Bend threatened to shoot officers and to detonate explosives Friday morning, prompting a standoff, but negotiators eventually got him and a fugitive woman with him to surrender, police said.

Officers said the man had a replica handgun when he surrendered, and no explosives were found.

Shortly before 10 a.m., an officer pulled over a car in the Romaine Village area that he knew to be associated with Dana Lee Johnson, 36, and Angela Capps-Watson, 33, Sgt. Rob Emerson said.

The officer soon learned the pair were not in the car but were staying in a detached garage in the 19700 block of Volare Lane.

Emerson said Johnson and Capps-Watson had warrants out for violating parole, while Johnson also was suspected of failing to register as a sex offender.

“When officers tried to contact the pair, Johnson claimed to have a gun and threatened to shoot the officers,” Emerson said. The man also claimed to have explosives set up that he would detonate if officers tried to come inside, and began barricading himself in the garage with Capps-Watson.

Officers backed out to a containment position, and based on their assessment of the threats, the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team (CERT) was called to assist.

Johnson continued to refuse to come out, making more threats. But after about an hour, CERT negotiators, assisted by Deschutes County Parole and Probation, were able to convince the pair to surrender and they were taken into custody without further incident, Emerson said.

Johnson had been in possession of a replica handgun he left in the garage when he surrendered, the sergeant said.

The investigation also found that drug use was a factor in the case.

Both suspects were booked into the county jail and held without bail on the warrants, while Johnson also is charged with failure to register as a sex offender, disorderly conduct and menacing.

In March 2014, Bend police said Johnson refused to pull over, sparking a pursuit that ended with him running, being Tasered and swallowing meth, leaving him hospitalized in critical condition.

Both Johnson and Capps-Watson were on the county’s current Parole & Probation Most Wanted List.