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Tossed cigarette leads to standoff 

How could a lighted cigarette, tossed out of a car in Orchards on Thursday afternoon, spark a police chase and a standoff with heavily armed SWAT officers?

One thing led to another, Washington State Patrol Trooper Stephen Robley said of the 90-minute standoff, with more than a dozen police cars on scene and streets blocked near Heritage High School. . . .

Gruendell saw the driver run into the house with a woman and small child who'd been in the front yard.

By that time, officers knew the man was Adam L. Staten, 25, who once lived there, and that felony and misdemeanor warrants had previously been issued for his arrest, Robley said. . . .

And he got the $1,025 ticket for the alleged littering.

"He made it a lot worse for himself," Robley said. "He added on numerous other charges."

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