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Wendt Released on Bail

By: Ben Manning
Updated: February 12, 2013
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BLAIR TOWNSHIP, BLAIR COUNTY - The man who allegedly held police at bay in a nine hour standoff is out of prison just a day after he arrested.

State troopers say Mark Wendt showed up at his estranged wife's home around 1:30 Sunday morning and got in a fight with her and his brother-in-law. He's accused of firing a weapon at the house while they were still inside. Police arrested him after a nine hour standoff in his home on Helen Street in Blair Township.

Wendt posted bail Monday afternoon.

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