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URBANA — Champaign County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrested Christopher Blanton, 37, following a two-hour standoff Sunday.
Blanton was in noncompliance with his registry as a sex offender in Kentucky and ran from deputies when approached. He was found in a nearby camper and placed in handcuffs, which he used to strike a deputy in the forehead. He was hit twice with a taser during a brief chase, removed the probes and ran to a home along East Dallas Road which he broke into and obtained a handgun.
He was charged with felonious assault, a first-degree felony.