Lima Police Department officers and FBI agents in tactical gear armed with automatic weapons staked out the southwest corner of the Maplewood Apartments complex Monday, searching more than three hours for Graves.
After first saying police had not been able to locate Graves and beginning to allow residents back into the area, Lt. Jim Baker said Graves had been taken into custody.
"Right now he has a warrant for robbery, but it's also related to the shooting at BW3," Baker said. "Those two things we are looking at him for."
Baker wouldn't say what had led authorities to believe Graves was in the area.
Authorities arrived at the 531 Brower Road complex at about 3 p.m. Monday. Graves was taken into custody a little after 6:30 p.m.
Tonda McDaniel, a resident in the building police officers had cordoned off, heard someone loudly pounding on doors on the floor above hers, then across the hall at an unoccupied apartment.
"I wondered what on Earth they were knocking over there for and just that time he starts rapping on my door," McDaniel said. "They said there was a man armed and dangerous that had run into our building."
While officers sought permission to search individual apartments, residents were cleared out of the building. Lima's K-9 unit also searched the apartment building.
It wasn't clear exactly where Graves was arrested. Baker would not give any details on the arrest or why officers had started to pull out.
Graves, 19, was named as a "person of interest" two days after the shooting at the Allentown Road restaurant that seriously injured 17-year-old Demonta Rogers.
Since the shooting, there has been a drive-by shooting at Wally's Fillin' Station, 2295 N. Cole St., and a firebombing of Rogers' South Central Avenue home that police have said may be related to the Buffalo Wild Wings shooting. Baker wouldn't say Monday if Graves was believed to be involved in either of those incidents.
Lima Municipal Court records show a warrant being issued for Graves on June 5 and again on Aug. 4 in connection to a March 20 aggravated robbery in Lima. No other details about the robbery were available.
Baker said the Allen County Sheriff's Office and the FBI had been assisting the Police Department with the investigation and search.
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