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3 killed in bizarre standoff at RV park

Juan Ortega, Wayne K. Roustan Sun Sentinel

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 5:09pm

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla.

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Several suspected area gang members were taken into custody in or near 3091 Eccles Ave. in Ogden on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden SWAT incident ends with arrests, no injuries

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 12:16am

OGDEN — A SWAT incident ended with the arrest of several people Tuesday afternoon.

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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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Police officers and emergency crew near 3268 Jackson Street in Ogden where 6 police officers were shot, including those from the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force and the Ogden Police Department, while serving a warrant. The suspect was also shot. (Erin Hooley/Standard-Examiner)

Six Ogden officers shot

Michael McFall, Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 7:15am

OGDEN -- Emergency responders rushed Wednesday night to 3268 Jackson St., where six officers were shot, according to Ogden's Assistant Police Chief Marcy Korgenski.

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SWAT called in for Ogden arrest on Davis County warrants

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 12:06am

OGDEN — The SWAT team was called in to arrest a man for two felony violations of a protective order and two other misdemeanor warrants in Davis County.

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(MATT YORK/The Associated Press) In this photo taken June 9, 2011, a portrait of Marine Jose Guerena Ortiz is shown in the window of his home Tucson, Ariz. Guerena was shot and killed on May 5, 2011 by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. The Sheriff’s Department said its SWAT team was at the home because they suspected Guerena of being involved in a drug-trafficking organization that specialized in ripping off smugglers. The SWAT team fired 71 times, riddling Guerena 22 times, while his wife and child cowered in a closet.

SWAT team’s shooting of Marine causes outrage

Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 5:18pm

TUCSON, Ariz. — Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons.

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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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Submachine guns, handguns stolen from SWAT-training site

Joel Rubin The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 8:39am

LOS ANGELES -- A cache of Los Angeles Police Department submachine guns and handguns was stolen last week from a secured building used by the department's SWAT unit, raising fears that the weapons, which police had altered to fire only blanks, could be converted back to lethal use, police officials confirmed.

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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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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Cherie Howell comforts her family after the funeral for her husband, Lt. Phil Howell, 60, on Monday in Ogden.

Huge procession honors officer who battled cancer on the force

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 12, 2011 - 10:49pm

OGDEN -- He wrote his own obituary.

"Kidney cancer finally got the best of me. God took me home on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011.

"I have lived with a foot in two worlds for too long anyway," Weber County Sheriff's Lt. Phil Howell, 60, wrote, referring to his upbringing in Hawaii in the obituary completed a week before his death.

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Phone phreakers dispatch Swat teams falsely to houses

Robbyn Mitchell St. Petersburg Times

Last updated Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 11:52am

BRANDON, Fla. -- Debora Marshall wasn't sure what she was witnessing. She came home from work to find sheriff's cruisers blocking streets in her sleepy Florida subdivision. Deputies with guns drawn and bulletproof vests surrounded her house.

"They had it blocked off at both ends. I thought a murderer was on the loose," she said.

So did the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities thought her son had killed her.

"My son was home and clueless," Marshall said. "I was at work, and all my neighbors thought I was dead."

In what appears to be the first incident of its kind in Hillsborough County, someone falsely and anonymously reported a murder and hostage situation that easily could have drawn a special weapons and tactics team and deadly consequences.

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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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Warrant issued for woman involved in hostage crisis

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 11:19pm

OGDEN -- An arrest warrant has been issued for the woman listed as Jason Valdez's hostage in a SWAT confrontation that left Valdez hospitalized.

In the 16-hour standoff that began June 18, Veronica Jensen appeared on Facebook with her would-be captor, Valdez. He shot himself in the chest after firing at officers who stormed his motel room in the Western Colony Inn to end the ordeal.

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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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