Arrest in US delayed by pause for sex

MIAMI (AFP) - US police serving an arrest warrant on a burglary suspect ended up in a long standoff because his girlfriend wanted to have sex with him one last time, authorities said.

Police finally did arrest Ryan Patrick Bautista, 34, and his girlfriend, Leanne Hunn, 30, after the six-hour drama at their mobile home in Jacksonville, Florida, the sheriff's office told the TV station WTLV.

Police showed up at the home Wednesday night to arrest Bautista on a warrant charging him with armed burglary.

Inside the mobile home, he and Hunn were not armed. They just refused to come out.

During negotiations with the police, Hunn told officers she would come out "but she wanted to have sex for one last time," the TV station reported.

In the end, police called in a Swat team to get the couple out of the mobile home.

They face charges of false imprisonment - they had earlier held a woman inside the home against her will - and resisting law enforcement without violence.

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