A Lansford man was taken into custody without incident following a standoff with police Sunday in the borough.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Sgt. Shawn Nunemacher of the Lansford Borough Police Department in the case against Yusef Wescott Jr.:

At 10:34 a.m. Nunemacher was dispatched to a home in the 100 block of West Abbott Street for a man who had shot a gun at someone.

The caller was the mother of the woman who was inside the home.

Officers set up a perimeter and were able to safely take Wescott, 29, into custody.

There were three small children and a woman located inside.

While clearing the home, Nunemacher located a small door leading to an attic crawl space area which was partially open, at which time officers found a 9 mm Ruger.

An interview was conducted with the woman’s brother, who came to help his sister because she was having problems with her boyfriend, Wescott.

The brother said he was on the second floor with Wescott when they began having an argument and Wescott attacked him from the side and took him down to the ground and was hitting him from the top.

His friend got Wescott off of him, and Wescott then ran into another area of the house.

He said his sister then told them that Wescott was going to get a gun and they needed to run, so they did.

Once outside, they heard a gun shot. Wescott was then standing at the door waving the brother’s friend’s keys, taunting them with the keys before throwing them across the street and into the snow.

The brother’s friend said while his friend was upstairs, he stayed on the first floor and heard banging and kids screaming.

He said he drew his concealed firearm and attempted to get Wescott off the woman’s brother, but Wescott rushed him.

Wescott’s girlfriend initially denied that Wescott had done anything, but then said a man came into the residence and pointed a gun at Wescott. She said Wescott chased the man out of the house and accidentally fired his gun.

She said she saw the red laser on Wescott, and that upon seeing guns she took her children and hid in the bathroom.

Nunemacher asked how she knew then that Wescott didn’t shoot the weapon at someone, and she said she just knows.

Wescott said that his girlfriend’s brother came over and they got into a fight.

Wescott said that he was pulled off his girlfriend’s brother by an unknown man who pointed a gun at him, and added he saw the red laser from the gun, so he charged the man.

Wescott said he was afraid so he went to get his gun, and said he heard his girlfriend tell them that he was getting a gun.

While trying to run downstairs, Wescott said he accidentally discharged his firearm into the floor at the bottom of the steps.

When asked why he hid the gun, Wescott said it was because he was scared.

Officers did find a shell casing about 6 feet from the bottom of the steps.

Officers then pulled up the carpet in an attempt to locate the discharged round, but were unable to locate the round anywhere by the steps.

The 9 mm Ruger came back with no record, but Wescott’s girlfriend’s brother was able to provide purchasing paperwork for Wescott.

Wescott faces charges of aggravated assault; risking catastrophe; simple assault; and recklessly endangering another person.

He is currently incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $500,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Feb. 17 before District Judge Casimir T. Kosciolek of Lansford.