Four Kenai Peninsula residents were arrested after a report of trespassing that turned into a standoff requiring a police SWAT team in Soldotna Wednesday afternoon, Alaska State Troopers said.
Troopers said they were notified at about 12:40 p.m. Wednesday of trespassers at a Prince Avenue home in Soldotna. When officers responded they found and arrested four people.
Travis McHone, 29, of Sterling, was arrested on warrants and a trespassing charge; 24-year-old Tami Hangstefer, of Kenai, was charged with hindering prosecution and criminal trespass; 67-year-old Sterling resident John Preston was arrested for violating his probation, and 50-year-old Michael McLaughlin, of Soldotna, was charged with hindering prosecution and criminal trespass.
Before the four were arrested, though, two of them -- troopers didn't identify which two -- barricaded themselves inside the home and refused to come out. One of the pair, a man, told troopers he had a gun.
The Southern Special Emergency Reaction Team, the region's special weapons and tactics unit, responded to the scene, as did Federal Wildlife Officers, Alaska Wildlife Troopers and officers and officials from the Soldotna Police Department, Kenai Adult Probations and U.S. Marshal Service, troopers said.
The pair were eventually taken into custody and neither suspects nor law enforcement officers were injured in the standoff, troopers said.
All four were taken to the Wildwood Pretrial Facility and held without bail.