Man held woman, two children hostage during standoff in Roosevelt, Nassau police say

Nassau County police arrested an armed Roosevelt man Friday during a brief standoff with police, after he refused to come out of his home while keeping a woman and two children hostage, police said.

Police were called at noon to the home on East Pennywood Avenue, where two men were arguing and one man pulled out a rifle, police said.

The armed man refused to talk to police or come out of the home and wouldn’t let a woman and her two children leave the house, police said.

Police surrounded the home and called the Emergency Services Unit and Special Operations to assist with negotiations, police said.

The man, along with the woman and her two children, left the home shortly after, unharmed, police said.

Police arrested Michael Glenn, 67, who was charged with three counts of menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and firearm, two counts of child endangerment, and two counts each of first-degree and second-degree unlawful imprisonment, police said.

He was arraigned Saturday at First District Court in Hempstead. The case was continued and a temporary order of protection was issued, according to online court records.

Contact information was not available for Glenn's attorney, who court records list as Mindy Ellen Plotkin of Garden City Park.

With Keldy Ortiz

By John Asbury

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