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Manhunt for Exeter resident ends after police standoff

September 1, 2021
Ezra DeVore & Sheila Harris

    According to Barry County Sheriff Danny Boyd, Michael Eugene Thomas, of Exeter, was arrested at a Springfield motel Monday night after a short standoff with officers from the Springfield Police Department.
    According to a probable cause statement filed by Justin D. Ruark, with the Barry County Sheriff’s Office, Michael Eugene Thomas, of Exeter, allegedly made threats over the phone to a Barry County Prosecutor’s Office employee. At 9 a.m. on Wednesday, August 25, Thomas called the Barry County Judicial Center in Cassville, and allegedly said to an employee, “If I have to come down there, someone is going to get killed over this.”
    Thomas is now charged with a first-degree terrorist threat and is being held in the Barry County Jail on a $40,000 bond.
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