A man was taken into custody after a convenience store theft led to a 12-hour standoff in Montgomery County.

Cherryvale police were called to a convenience store Monday on a theft report, and police learned that the suspect made threats to several people on social media, and he also made suicidal statements.   Police went to the man’s home, but he fired two shots into the air and then went inside.

Montgomery County deputies were called to the home along with a Kansas Bureau of Investigation SWAT team.   They went into the home Tuesday morning and took the man into custody.  He was taken to a hospital when officers found that he had taken a large amount of sleeping aid medication.   The man was treated and later booked into the Montgomery County jail.

Sheriff’s detectives found some improvised explosive devices inside the home, and a Kansas Highway Patrol bomb squad was called to the scene to disarm them.