Evan Edwardsen
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SYRACUSE -- A man charged in a standoff with Syracuse police has been indicted by a grand jury.
28-year-old Evan Edwardsen was indicted on charges of planting a false bomb or hazardous substance. It stems from a standoff at the Homestead Housing facility on Wyoming Street in August.
Police say they went to Edwardsen's room and he would only open the door slightly, then tried to shut it on them. Police say he had a grenade in his hand. The grenade was apparently real but not live.
Police negotiated with Edwardsen to come out for about ten hours before he was arrested.
This is the second time that Edwardsen has been involved in a standoff with police. In 2009, he was charged with menacing and criminal possession of a weapon after threatening his father with a compound bow-and-arrow. That standoff, on Carnoustie Lane in Manlius, lasted for six hours until police forced their way into the home's basement and took Edwardsen into custody.
