A local man who held law officers at bay with an AR-15 rifle last October was convicted of associated felonies last week in Anderson County District Court and will be sentenced September 23rd. An Anderson County jury found Chambers guilty on four of five felony counts brought by Anderson County Attorney Elizabeth Oliver, including two felony counts of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer and lesser charges of criminal threat and aggravated domestic battery.
Chambers never fired on officers but armed himself with several weapons and barricaded himself into a garage at the family’s home on North Oak Street in October of last year, after a domestic incident involving his wife and family. After nearly four hours of negotiation, law officers and tactical teams from outside the area used a vehicle mounted battering ram to push in a garage door, then fired less than lethal rounds in an attempt to incapacitate Chambers. Chambers was allowed to bond out of jail the day after the incident. Aggravated assault against an officer in Kansas is a level 6 person felony, which can carry a prison sentence of 18 months to four years in prison.
