A wanted felon was arrested Wednesday after nearly a four-hour standoff in the Stratmoor area, according to a social media post by Colorado Springs police.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office issued a shelter-in-place in the 1300 block of Burnham Street after a suspect barricaded himself in a house with two children just after 9 a.m. 

The suspect allegedly barricaded himself in a house with two “young” children, and for more than three hours the Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and police worked to resolve the situation,  according to a news release from police. 

Burnham Street is in unincorporated El Paso County, south of city limits.

Around 12:45 p.m., the suspect surrendered and was taken into custody, the news release stated. The shelter-in-place order was lifted at about 1:20 p.m. The children in the home were not harmed. 

No information about the wanted felon was made available. as of Wednesday afternoon.

Death investigation underway after 3-vehicle crash on U.S. 24