
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 18, 1994                    TAG: 9406180225 
SECTION: LOCAL                     PAGE: B4    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 
DATELINE: 940618                                 LENGTH: PORTSMOUTH

MAN SURRENDERS AFTER 2 1/2-HOUR POLICE STANDOFF

{LEAD} Hostage negotiators coaxed a Navy man with a 9 mm handgun out of his South Street townhouse Friday after a 2 1/2-hour standoff.

No one was injured.

{REST} Matthew Guise, 27, of the 700 block of South Street, was turned over to naval authorities after he surrendered at 12:48 p.m., said G.A. Brown, Portsmouth Police Department spokesman.

Guise apparently had an argument with his wife Friday morning after she removed the couple's two children from the townhouse. He picked up a 9 mm handgun and refused to relinquish it, Brown said.

Portsmouth police received an out-of-state telephone call at 10:18 a.m., alerting them to a problem at the Guise household, Brown said.

Police eventually talked with Guise by telephone and persuaded him to leave the house.

Brown said no charges were filed against Guise.

by CNB