Police In Iowa End Day Long Standoff With Elvis Impersonator

[Initech]

DES MOINES, Iowa —Des Moines police, SWAT officers and several other metro law enforcement agencies ended a standoff with a man in the 3100 block of Wright Street early Monday morning.

Des Moines Police said the Metro S.T.A.R. team developed a plan to have negotiators coax 53-year-old Michael Wayne Reed out onto his porch. Police then used a Taser to subdue him and take him into custody.

Reed is also known as Micky King, a longtime impersonator of Elvis Presley. Friends and family said he lives in the home with his mother.

His mother was not inside the home, they said


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Gives new meaning to the phrase "All shook up".

[Recursion]

1. Is this the week of Elvis impersonators going on murderous rampages?

WTF?

[Initech]

2. There's more?

[Recursion]

4. Ricin mailing guy (nt)

[MADem]

7. I thought about him too when I read this. nt

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Elvis has left the building...

[Aristus]

5. Seems to have a mamma fixation, just like Elvis.

[liberal N proud]

6. The whole Elvis impersonator thing must be done and these guys need some attention

Last week the guy sending Ricin letters was an Elvis impersonator and now another one.

Not a good month for Elvis.