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After a roughly hour-long standoff with police from multiple agencies, a man surrendered to law enforcement in Middletown Township Wednesday night.
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According to information from a police source and a emergency radio monitoring service, authorities arrived to a house in the 800 block of Walsh Road in the Langhorne section of the township shortly after 6 p.m. and discovered an armed man in his 60s was barricaded inside a house. Responding patrol units were advised the man may have been armed with a handgun.
By around 7 p.m., the standoff had ended and the suspect turned himself in to police, the source said. Unconfirmed scanner traffic indicated police were beginning to clear the scene around the same time.
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No one was injured in the standoff.
The residential street was void of police by 8:30 p.m. and was relatively quiet.
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The suspect was expected to be charged overnight.
More information is to be released Thursday.
