- Abraham Hernandez-Duron faces potential federal charges in connection to a burglary at the Park City Gun Club.
- He allegedly fired multiple shots at officers and stole five firearms.
- A standoff ended with his arrest after a vehicle crash at Trailside Bike Park.
PARK CITY — The man arrested for allegedly breaking into the Park City Gun Club and stealing multiple weapons is now facing potential federal charges.
A federal complaint was filed Tuesday against 40-year-old Abraham Hernandez-Duron. A complaint is used by federal authorities to keep a person in custody while a grand jury decides whether to indict that person on federal charges.
Hernandez-Duron was arrested on Sunday and booked into the Summit County Jail for investigation of 15 counts of illegal discharge of a firearm, aggravated assault targeting law enforcement, aggravated burglary, theft, two counts of failing to stop for police, being a restricted person in possession of a gun and criminal mischief.
Summit County sheriff's deputies responded to a burglary alarm about 5:30 a.m. Sunday at the Park City Gun Club, 4285 N. Forestdale Drive. When the first responding deputies arrived on scene, they noted, "Multiple shots were fired from the inside of the building," according to the federal complaint.
Hernandez-Duron then ran from the building, got into a vehicle and drove off.
"Hernandez-Duron was pursued and eventually crashed the vehicle at Trailside Bike Park. Hernandez-Duron was initially noncompliant with commands from law enforcement, which led to a SWAT callout," the complaint states.
After a standoff that lasted about one hour and 20 minutes, Hernandez-Duron got out of his vehicle and, "after placing the rifle on the ground, complied with the directions of the SWAT team, and he was taken into custody safely," a police booking affidavit states.
Once Hernandez-Duron was arrested, investigators learned that he had stacked about seven rifles at the entrance of the gun club.
"Hernandez-Duron also removed several firearms from the display cases and from the wall behind the counter, along with ammunition, and fired multiple rounds from these firearms," according to the complaint. "A subsequent inventory of the firearms at the (gun club) revealed that five firearms were missing: three handguns and two rifles."
The booking affidavit from the Summit County Sheriff's Office adds that while deputies were outside the gun club, "the suspect discharged firearms toward officers and out of the building through the glass windows 15 times. … Thirteen of the rounds exited the north window and two penetrated the north wall."
One deputy was struck in the hand by "an unknown object that came from the gun club," which was "possibly from a bullet ricochet or flying debris," the sheriff's office said.
