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MARIETTA — A Washington County Grand Jury indicted a Lowell man for his involvement in an October standoff Wednesday afternoon.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office Special Response Team responded to a residence with a distraught individual on the evening of Oct. 27, according to Chief Deputy Mark Warden. The man was identified as Tom Shank of Lowell. Warden got notification of the incident around 6 p.m., he said, and officers made contact with Shanks but he retreated into the second-floor residential part of a detached garage.

“He basically barricaded himself in there,” Warden said.

The Sheriff’s Office made a perimeter around the scene and made attempts to contact Shanks through negotiators, but that failed, according to Warden, so the Sheriff’s Office launched drones.

“He actually fired weapons at the drones,” Warden said.

He said Shanks also fired weapons inside the residential area of the detached garage.

Shank, now identified as Thomas Lee Shank II, 64, 212 Fifth St., Lowell, was charged with one count of improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation or a school safety zone, a second-degree felony, and one count of inducing panic, a fifth-degree felony.

Those also indicted include:

* Christopher Carl Parsley, 44, Rt. 1 Box 171D, Williamson, W.Va., one count each of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, and possession of cocaine, a fifth-degree felony, from October 2023.

* Calvin V. Bradley, 38, 7278 Colonial Affair Dr., New Albany, Ohio, one count each of trafficking in cocaine; possession of cocaine; trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound; and possession of a fentanyl-related compound, all first-degree felonies; and failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, a first-degree misdemeanor, from August. Bradley is also identified as a major drug offender and had specifications for forfeiture of cell phones and money in a drug case.

* Javon Ramir Jones, 22, 1244 Burkhart Ave., Akron, one count each of trafficking in marihuana and possession of marihuana, both third-degree felonies, from July 2023.

* Jeffery Boyd Jeffers, 58, 105 Muskingum Dr., Marietta, one count each of having weapons while under disability, a third-degree felony; unlawful possession of dangerous ordnance, a fifth-degree felony; and two counts of receiving stolen property, a fourth-degree felony, from September.

* Alicia Danielle Woods, 40, homeless, one count each of strangulation and disrupting public service, both fourth-degree felonies; and domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor, from September. In a separate case, Woods was also charged with one count of illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto grounds of a specified governmental facility, a third-degree felony, from September.

* Co-defendants Brian Kenneth Taylor, 29, 2742 Milltown Road, Reno, and Brittany Elizabeth Taylor, 25, same address, each charged with four counts of endangering children, a third-degree felony, from August.

* Co-defendants Eric “Toby” Ellis Luke, 38, 711 Second St., Marietta; Lakyn Nikole Hunter, 24, 165 Starlite Dr., Lot 17, Marietta; and Kirk Russell Slider, 31, last known address 26935 St. Rt. 7, Apt. 2A, Marietta, two counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property, both fourth-degree felonies, from July.

* Co-defendants Bradley Allen Whitlatch, 43, 824 37th St., Vienna, and Tyren Travon Thompson, 30, 879 N. Jenkins Boulevard, Akron, one count each of aggravated trafficking in drugs and aggravated possession of drugs, both first-degree felonies, and trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound and possession of fentanyl-related compound, both second-degree felonies, from October. Whitlatch and Thompson also had specifications for forfeiture of money and cell phones in a drug case.

* Travis John Jones, 45, 4200 Ellis Rd., Coolville, one count of aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, from December 2023.

* Dylan Mitchell Sprague, 22, homeless, one count each of strangulation, a third-degree felony; felonious assault, a second-degree felony; aggravated menacing, a first-degree misdemeanor, resisting arrest and obstructing official business, both second-degree misdemeanors; and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, from November.

* Terry Brian Fox, 50, 312 Walnut St., Belpre, one count each of aggravated possession of drugs, a third-degree felony; and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, from August 2023.

* Michael M. Murray, 56, 2517 Moody Ridge Rd., Vincent, two counts of theft, a fourth-degree felony, from April 2019.

* Brent John McKinney, 50, 29075 St. Rt. 7, Marietta, one count of aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, from July.

* Dustin Lee McKnight, 39, last known address 8239 St. Rt. 60, Lowell, one count of grand theft of a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree felony, from November 2023.

* Douglas Lee Landers, 45, 326 Kenna Drive, Charleston, one count of failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, a fourth-degree felony, from October.

* John Muiu Porter, 36, 33497 Brownsville Co. Line Rd., New Matamoras, two counts of assault, a fourth-degree felony; and one count each of obstructing official business, a fifth-degree felony; and resisting arrest, a second-degree misdemeanor, from September.

* Jason Anthony Dick, 46, 416 Ramblewood Rd., Patriot, Ohio, one count of theft, a fifth-degree felony, from August.

* Miranda Elaine King, 30, 16066 Heilands Kies Rd., Botkins, Ohio, one count each of breaking and entering, a fifth-degree felony; and misdemeanor theft, a first-degree misdemeanor, from September.

* Marcelo Lopez Martinez, 26, homeless, one count of theft, a fifth-degree felony; and three counts of receiving stolen property, two fifth-degree felonies and one first-degree misdemeanor, from November.