An exchange of goods between two people turned into an aggravated robbery and a hostage situation in Layton on Tuesday before the standoff ended peacefully.
A man had holed up in his apartment in a complex near 200 North and Fairfield Road after he and another man reportedly robbed a 19-year-old at gunpoint late Tuesday morning.
Police sent into an apartment a tactical robot, which searched room by room until it found the hiding man in a closet, according to Layton police Lt. Travis Lyman. Police brought the man out of the apartment at 5:30 p.m., Lyman said.
Officers arrested the other suspect when he walked outside, before the standoff, Lyman said.
A child of one of the suspects, as well as that child’s mother, was in the apartment with the man in the apartment, according to Layton police. Police did not say whether that man is the child’s father. The woman at first refused to leave, but police got her, her child and another child out of the apartment by 3:25 p.m.
The 19-year-old man had met one of the two men at a restaurant near Fairfield Road and Gordon Avenue because he planned to buy a cellphone that had been listed for sale online. Instead, Lyman said, the two men robbed him at gunpoint and tried to kidnap him.
During the alleged robbery, the two men reportedly locked the 19-year-old in their vehicle and tried to drive away. The 19-year-old kicked out a window and escaped, police said.
No one was injured, according to Layton police, who tracked the two alleged robbers to the apartment complex.
They were booked into Davis County jail on complaints of aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping, among other offenses, police said.