Two people have been arrested after an hours-long standoff in Woodstock that ended early Thursday morning, according to state police.
The investigation began just before noon as a robbery investigation on Woodstock Road and caused evacuations and several road closures on Wednesday.
State police said two men with a baseball bat and a gun went through a window and into an apartment just before noon. There was a woman inside at the time.
Troopers said she got out voluntarily and told them that two men entered through a side window and had a baseball bat and a gun, according to state police.
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Detectives said one of the suspects came out hours after state police arrived and was taken into custody.
The other came out through a window hours later, ran toward the trees and was taken into custody.
A neighbor said he saw a police scene intensify before his neighborhood was swarmed with officers.
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Jeff Erickson said the response was on a scale he had never seen before in his quiet corner home.
“I saw one trooper car go down the hill and he was not sightseeing, they were moving and after that, it just got more people, more cars more troopers, thank goodness, getting the job done," Erickson said.
Police evacuated immediate neighbors and shut down area roads to continue negotiations, but neighbors like Erickson said that based on the massive law enforcement presence, he wasn't concerned.
State police said Thursday morning that Reuben Field, 39, of Putnam, and Mark Racine, 37, of Willington, have been charged with home invasion, burglary in the first degree, larceny of a motor vehicle and interfering with an officer/resisting.
The home invasion charges were later dropped.
Bond was set at $100,000. They are due in court on July 12.
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