Stories: 16 Hour Hostage Standoff

An attempt to serve Jason Valdez with a federal drug warrant turned into a 16-hour hostage situation as SWAT Teams from the Ogden Police Department and Weber County Sheriff's Department tried to talk him into releasing Veronica Jensen room at the Western Colonial Inn where he was holding her against her will Friday, June 17, 2011 on 24th Street in Ogden, Utah.

After an attempt to serve Jason Valdez with a federal drug warrant turned into a hostage situation, the ex-girlfriend of Valdez weeps on the sidewalk after talking with police near the Western Colonial Inn where he was holding Veronica Jensen on 24th Street in Ogden, Utah.
   
Two members of the Ogden Police Department's SWAT Team take up position behind the room where Valdez was holding Jensen.
   
Jensen's parents wait as an Ogden police officer speaks with their daughter who was being held against her will.
     
  
A Facebook picture update by Valdez of he and hostage Jensen is shown on a mobile phone as a standoff with the Ogden Police Department and Weber County Sheriff's Department progressed into the night on Friday.
  
Two hostage negotiators leave the Western Colony Inn after Valdez, who earlier said that he would release his hostage, fired several rounds from his weapon as SWAT team members tried to secure her release, ending negotiations in the early hours of Saturday morning.
  
Lt. Eric Young of the Ogden Police Department talks with two hostage negotiators after Valdez fired several rounds from his weapon forcing SWAT team members to pull back.
     
  
Members of the Ogden Police Department's SWAT Team take up new positions as they get ready to storm the room in which Valdez was holding Jensen.
   
The mother of Veronica reacts to an update from Lt. Eric Young of the Ogden Police Department after Valdez fired several rounds from the weapon in his possession.
   
Jessica Reyes, Jason Valdez's sister, and his father, Duane Valdez, react after hearing loud explosion as SWAT teams from Ogden Police Department and the Weber County Sheriff's Department storm the room Valdez was holding his hostage, Veronica Jensen, Saturday.
     
  
Veronica Jensen, the woman police say Valdez held against her will during a 16 hour standoff, is led out in handcuffs after SWAT teams from the Ogden Police Department the Weber County Sheriff's Department stormed the room the two were holed up in following a breakdown in negotiations Saturday morning.
  
Officers with the Ogden Police Department tape off the parking lot of the Western Colony Inn following a 16 hour standoff with Jason Valdez. Valdez was transported to McKay-Dee Hospital with what police report was a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his chest.