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Law enforcement officers from a number of different agencies, including the Utah Highway Patrol, Washington County Sheriff's Department, the Hurricane Police Department and the Washington City Police Department, keep their weapons trained on a maroon colored Scion, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 at mile marker 17 near Hurricane, Utah. Inside the vehicle, a man was holding his two sons at gunpoint as the car sits on it's rims in the middle of the southbound lane of Interstate 15 after having it's tires blown out by spikes during a chase with law enforcement officers. (AP Photo/The Spectrum, Jud Burkett)

9-hour I-15 standoff ends when man surrenders

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 6:22pm

ST. GEORGE, Utah — A man involved in a nine-hour standoff that shut down Interstate 15 in Utah was trying to keep his children from returning to their mother’s custody in California, police said.

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Negotiator attempts to end southern Utah standoff

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 4:33pm

ST. GEORGE -- A negotiator and a SWAT team are on the scene of a standoff in southern Utah that has closed a stretch of Interstate 15 in Washington County.

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Hocking County Sheriff Lanny North talks to reporters late Monday night, Jan. 9, 2012, after a family dispute ended when a man apparently shot and killed his wife's two sisters and his son before fatally shooting himself in Logan, Ohio. (AP Photo/The Eagle-Gazette, Jess Lanning)

4 dead in apparent murder-suicide in Ohio

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 10:25am

LOGAN, Ohio -- A family dispute ended when a man caring for his terminally ill wife apparently shot and killed her two sisters and his son before fatally shooting himself, authorities said.

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Ogden Police Officer Travis Copier, seen here last week, survived a hammer attack to the face and was nearly shot in the head during a SWAT standoff — both within three months of each other. He hasn’t let the facial injury from the hammer or the threat of danger keep him from doing what he loves. In fact, he’s currently assigned to the Crime Reduction Unit, which patrols Ogden’s inner city. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden officer still aims to be police chief -- even after two recent close calls

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 8:54am

OGDEN -- He still has a dent in his face from his March encounter with a drunken gangster swinging a hammer. And the dent almost caught a bullet in June when Travis Copier was part of a SWAT team breaking up a hostage situation.

In both cases, Copier is the listed victim for charges of first-degree felony attempted murder.

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A Facebook photo update by Jason Valdez, seen here with Veronica Jensen, is shown on a mobile phone during a June standoff with the Ogden Police Department and Weber County Sheriff’s Office. (ANTHONY SOUFFLE/Standard-Examiner)

Public defender of suspect in Ogden standoff needs county funds for expert witnesses

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 14, 2011 - 5:44am

OGDEN -- Jason Valdez's public defender will be hiring an expert, possibly more than one, as part of the defense for charges of kidnapping and attempted murder -- which revisits the potential conflict of interest in Weber County of having prosecutors influence the funding of defense attorneys.

Valdez is charged in the 16-hour SWAT standoff that began June 18 in an Ogden motel, an event Valdez posted about on his Facebook page throughout.

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Standoff hostage's prosecution complicates Valdez's case

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 11:17pm

OGDEN -- Proceedings against an Ogden man who posted Facebook updates about his standoff with SWAT officers ground to a halt after his alleged hostage pleaded guilty to drug charges.

In the 16-hour standoff that began June 18, Veronica Jensen appeared on Facebook with her would-be captor, Jason Valdez.

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Man arrested after 6-hour SWAT standoff in Sandy

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 1:31pm

SANDY -- A man has been arrested after a six-hour SWAT team standoff at a Sandy home that ended with a robot finding the suspect asleep in his bed.

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Woman in stand-off faces drug charge

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 12:03am

OGDEN -- Veronica Jensen was booked into jail Wednesday evening after skipping her scheduled court dates for a drug charge.

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Police end standoff, subdue man with Taser gun

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 3:38pm

MILLCREEK -- Authorities say they were able to end a four-hour standoff in Millcreek by subduing a 42-year-old man with a Taser.

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Brenda Gallegos hugs a member of the negotiation team after extended standoff in Farr West ended peacefully with the suspect, her son, Lance Gallegos, 23, unhurt and in custody, headed to the Weber County Jail. His pregnant wife, right, Kristyn Kuck, is due in a few days. Sheriff’s Lt. Chad Ferrin said the standoff started around 1:30 p.m when the suspect fled his own house on 1300 North and ran to a neighbor’s. He said the warrants were just for misdemeanors — traffic or minor criminal offenses — but "he decided he wasn’t quite ready to go to jail yet." (Erin Hooley/Standard-Examiner)

Farr West SWAT Standoff

Erin Hooley, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 5:53pm

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SWAT standoff ends in Farr West

Charles F. Trentelman, Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 9:19am

FARR WEST — A man’s seven-hour standoff with Weber County Sheriff’s SWAT team ended peacefully Tuesday evening after he fled from a misdemeanor arrest warrant and barricaded himself inside a neighbor’s house.

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Man in standoff out of hospital, in jail

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, July 15, 2011 - 10:30am

OGDEN -- Three and a half weeks after his standoff with Ogden police, Jason Valdez, 36, has been booked into Weber County Jail.

Valdez had been recovering in McKay-Dee Hospital since June 19, when the standoff ended with him shooting himself in the chest as police barged into the Western Colony Inn motel room. He had barricaded himself in there with a hostage for 16 hours after officers tried to serve him a drug-related warrant.

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Police SWAT team members put away their gear after a stand off in Trainer, Pennsylvania, ended with the suspect of Saturday night's Montgomery County killings shot dead, Monday, July 4, 2011 . (Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT)

Suspect in weekend Pa. shootings killed by SWAT team

Contributed The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 3:24pm

PHILADELPHIA -- A man who shot five people in Montgomery County, Pa., Saturday night was killed by police late Monday morning as the house he was in was surrounded by police SWAT teams.

At a press conference, Delaware County District Attorney Mike Green and Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said the suspect died in the basement. Ferman said the suspect, Mark Geisenheyner, 51, was killed by police.

Authorities said Geisenheyner had a long criminal history in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York. Some of the crimes were related to insurance fraud.

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Cousin: 'Ugly' Facebook responses to standoff suspect add to tragedy

Jessica Miller Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, June 24, 2011 - 11:28pm

OGDEN -- When Jason Valdez posted seven status updates on his Facebook page about his involvement in a standoff with the Ogden Police Department last weekend, he intended to inform just his 165 friends. But because of his liberal privacy settings, anyone could view his page and leave comments -- which resulted in tens of thousands of comments, mostly condemning the man who ended the standoff by shooting himself in the chest.

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Latest Ogden standoff blazed a new trail with social media

Dave Greiling Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, June 24, 2011 - 11:04pm

I was once part of a reporting team covering a hostage situation. A doctor's wife was kidnapped at a local mall and the bad guys fled to a nearby neighborhood with their hostage, with police hot on their trail.

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