Joplin man surrenders after shootout with Newton County, Joplin officers, body located in the woods

A Joplin man who was free on $1,000 bond while awaiting felony drug trafficking, possession and weapons charges in Jasper County Circuit Court surrendered today following a shootout with Newton County and Joplin officers.

Following the arrest, Newton County deputies executed a search warrant and found a body on the property, which has been labeled a homicide scene.

The report of a possible murder and abandonment of a body brought Newton County deputies and Ozarks Drug Enforcement team officers to 3517 Cherry Road, located in the Greenwood area of rural Joplin at the north end of Newton County.

With the search warrant in hand, officers knocked on the door at the mobile home on the property, announced who they were and were greeted by gunfire.

SWAT teams from Newton County and from the Joplin Police Department were able to get the man in side the house, Freddie Lewis Tilton, 47, to come out by firing numerous rounds of tear gas. Tilton was wanted in Newton County on felony domestic assault and armed criminal action in connection following a Neosho Police Department investigation into a situation involving the alleged choking, pistol whipping and threatening of a woman at the Boonslick Lodge.

Federal kidnapping charges in connection with that case were filed today against Tilton and Alvin Dale Boyer, 35, Rogers, Arkansas.

It's academic now, but Jasper County Circuit Court online records show that the Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney's office filed a motion to revoke Tilton's bond July 24.

Tilton is being held in the Greene County Jail.