Barricaded Man Arrested Many Times Before

The 34-year-old man who hid from police for two hours inside his Lake Forest home Thursday is no stranger to police encounters, having spent multiple years in prison for felony convictions in Orange County starting in 1997.

Police surrounded Huey Pierce Gordon’s home on Claude Circle on Thursday morning to serve a felony arrest warrant for probation violation, part of the sentence he received for being under the influence of a controlled substance in April 2010.

When he refused to leave the house, sheriff's deputies in Lake Forest called in officers from Mission Viejo and Aliso Viejo and members of the Sheriff's Department SWAT team. By noon, the quiet neighborhood was teeming with law enforcement agents, and a helicopter buzzed overhead, scanning the scene.

At about 12:30 p.m., a deputy finally reached Gordon on the phone, and he began cooperating with police.

Police took him and 25-year-old Kathryne Christine Lotts, who deputies were not aware was in the house, away in handcuffs.

Since Gordon's first Orange County Superior Court jail sentence was handed down in 1997 for drug charges, he has a lengthy rap sheet.

Court records show he's been sentenced to jail time for eight drug charges since his first, the latest of which landed him on probation through 2013.

A possession charge in 1998 resulted in a 16-month prison sentence, as did the same charge in 1999, according to the records.

In addition to a host of drug-related charges, Gordon was also sent to jail in 2005 on battery and vandalism charges and in 2008 on a weapons conviction.

One of his three most recent convictions—all drug-related—put him on probation until Nov. 5, 2013.

Lotts isn't a stranger to law enforcement either.

She is on probation until Oct. 24 as a result of a February 2010 hit-and-run conviction.

Police took her in Thursday because she has warrants for alleged theft and traffic violations, according to Orange County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Angel Andrade with Lake Forest Police Services.