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U.S. Marshals have arrested an allegedly violent fugitive living in a camper on the rural western edge of Salt Lake City.
The Wednesday evening arrest followed hours of surveillance and then a standoff, where the man barricaded himself in an RV with a gun and threatened to shoot himself, said Derryl Spencer, supervisory deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service in Salt Lake City.
Spencer said U.S. Marshals in Chicago has been working to find Ivan Faunce for weeks.
Early Wednesday morning, they called Spencer saying they thought Faunce may be living in the Salt Lake City area. Faunce, 38, was wanted for alleged "aggravated sexual assault of a child" in the Chicago area, according to Spencer, though details of his case were not clear Thursday.
By mid-morning, investigators tracked Faunce to a farm at 1030 South and 4800 West, Spencer said. They watched the property for six hours, he said, and eventually spotted Faunce walking around.
At about 4:30 p.m., seven Marshals and 25 members of the Marshal-led Violent Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team swarmed the farm. Spencer said Faunce retreated to his trailer, and for a while barricaded himself inside and yelled out a window that he had a gun in his mouth. Spencer said he began talking to the man on a bullhorn, and Faunce eventually surrendered peacefully.
Marshals obtained a search warrant for the RV and found a loaded .45-caliber pistol, Spencer said. He said officials had information that Faunce could be violent, and that he had made comments to friends and family that he wouldn't go down with out a fight.
Faunce was booked in the Salt Lake County jail on a fugitive from justice warrant. His bail was set at $100,000.
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