Couple in custody after standoff

A Grayslake couple was taken into custody Sunday morning following a three-and-a-half hour standoff with police at their apartment.

Grayslake police responded to the Grayslake Apartments, 365 Neville Road, at 6:40 a.m. after reports of a loud domestic disturbance.

The occupants reportedly refused to let police inside the apartment.

Police say the woman inside was begging to be allowed to "just leave," and then officers heard what they believed to be the sound of a pistol being charged or racked.

Grayslake police called the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System Emergency Service Team, a police unit specializing in high-risk tactical rescue.

NIPAS reportedly began talking to a male occupant, and at about 10:13 a.m. both the man and woman were taken into custody.

The couple's identities had not been released as of Sunday afternoon.

Neighbors were ordered by police to stay inside their homes until after 10:30 a.m.

"I was upstairs in my bedroom taking pictures from the window," said Rita Simon, who lives across the street from the apartment building. "I wasn't scared but if I would have been out on the street it would have been a different story."

Randy Bates, who also lives across the street, said when he woke up around 7:30 a.m. he had five messages on his cell phone asking what was going on in his neighborhood.

"I went downstairs to look out and there were cops and SWAT teams everywhere," Bates said. "At the end they brought a blond girl out and she was shaking. The guy was in handcuffs."