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Police have 3-hour standoff with empty shed

Associated PressSaturday, January 10, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City police were in a three-hour standoff outside a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out there was nobody inside. The standoff started Thursday after police got a report from a woman living inside the house that she thought she saw her roommate's estranged boyfriend enter the shed with a gun.
Officers secured the area, but after clearing the house and sending K-9 dogs to the shed, they found it was locked and there was no one there.
Some neighbors had been evacuated and police shut down a portion of a city street near the house.


My question is: What occurs in a three hours time span between arrival at the scene, and either knocking on the shed door, or in this case, sending a K-9 to sniff things out?....pun intended.
This is an embarassment to SLCPD. Imagine the press conference. That must have been a doosy, but because I am always at the top of my journalism I am the first to provide to the public an interview with the Lieutenent in-charge of: Operation "Empty-Shed".

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