An Aiken County sheriff's officer leaves the mobile home where Charles Patten Young held police at bay for three hours before surrendering. Mr. Young's father had called police Tuesday after finding a disturbing note taped to his son's door.

Police standoff leads to arrest

No one hurt as area man gives himself up to officers after having made threats, holing up inside home

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By Katie Throne
South Carolina Bureau

WARRENVILLE -- A three-hour standoff ended peacefully Tuesday after a resident surren-dered to sheriff's deputies.

Charles Patten Young, 38, bar-ricaded himself inside his Schley Street mobile home and threat-ened to harm police if they came near him, authorities said. Mr. Young's father called the Aiken County Sheriff's Office early Tuesday morning when he found a disturbing note taped to the door and his son holed up inside, Lt. Michael Frank said.

Police wouldn't discuss the contents of the note.

Deputies arrived at the residence at about 8 a.m. When they approached the front door, an ``agitated'' Mr. Young said he would harm them if they entered; police took him seriously and backed down, Lt. Frank said. Two hours later, the high-risk entry team was called in and crisis negotiators talked Mr. Young out.

``We had to approach the home to try and make contact because there was no working phone inside,'' Lt. Frank said.

Negotiators tossed a portable phone through Mr. Young's front door, and at 11:15 a.m. -- three hours after the standoff began -- persuaded him to surrender.

Mr. Young walked out of his home peacefully, dressed in a red baseball cap, a blue checkered pullover shirt and blue jeans, Lt. Frank said.

Investigators searched the home and the surrounding yard, littered with old tires, broken chairs and boxes, but could find no weapons, the lieutenant said.

Mr. Young was taken by ambulance to Aiken Regional Medical Centers for a large cut on his left hand, which stemmed from a domestic feud the night before that might have prompted Tuesday's standoff, authorities said.

After being treated at the hospital, Mr. Young was taken to a prison medical facility in Columbia.

Police charged Mr. Young with two counts of criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.

Deputies had been at Mr. Young's home the night before when his father, Clarence, who lives across the street, called to report a domestic dispute shortly before 11:30 p.m. Monday.

Mr. Young apparently came home drunk and punched his mother repeatedly in the head, Lt. Frank said.

His father called police when he heard the scuffle, then grabbed a knife to defend himself and his wife. Mr. Young attempted to snatch the knife away from his father and cut his hand during the argument. He then punched his father and knocked him to the ground, police said.

When deputies arrived at the home, Mr. Young already had fled the scene, Lt. Frank said.

The father was taken to the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Augusta for cuts on his leg and hand, then released.

Reach Katie Throne at (803) 279-6895.