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Salt Lake City police took an apparently drug-crazed man into custody following a two-hour standoff at Salt Lake Regional Medical Center on Thursday night.
Public safety dispatchers said officers were called to the hospital, 1050 E. South Temple Street, shortly before 7 p.m., when the 25-year-old man suddenly ran off through building while being attended and barricaded himself inside a second-floor counseling room in the Intensive Care Unit.
Over the next two and a half hours, as the man began breaking things, including the window, police attempted to negotiate his surrender.
The episode ended when the man broke through a wall with a chair and, as he entered the adjacent room, was bitten by a K-9 and taken into custody by waiting officers.
During the incident, staff moved patients out of adjacent rooms.
SLCPD Detective Cody Lougy said the man initially came to the hospital seeking treatment, but became agitated and violent with staff before locking himself inside the counseling room.
The man was treated for minor injuries and then arrested.
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