Police find no one in shed after 3-hour standoff

[January 10, 2009]  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- 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.

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[Associated Press]

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