🌱 Patch AM: What prompted the four-hour SWAT standoff at a Stone Mountain complex?

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• What prompted the four-hour SWAT standoff at a Stone Mountain complex?

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📰 News we're reading

• Man wanted for armed robbery arrested after hours-long SWAT standoff (fox5atlanta.com) — A man wanted in connection with an armed robbery was arrested after barricading himself for nearly four hours inside an apartment at The Park at Stonehaven complex in Stone Mountain. DeKalb County SWAT officers eventually entered the unit before 8 p.m., taking him into custody without injuries. Police have not yet released his identity or details of the original robbery.
   

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• I finally found a little Jesus!!
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A hole (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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