Police officer wounded after allegedly taking fellow officer hostage

A police officer in a small town in northeast Pennsylvania was wounded Friday evening after he took another officer hostage, investigators said. The hostage was not injured, The (Allentown) Morning Call reported. The incident began in Lansford, a borough of fewer than 5,000 people in Carbon County. Investigators said a part-time police officer, who was off duty at the time and had been behaving strangely, drew ammunition at the police station. The officer is then alleged to have forced a colleague to ride with him in a police officer. The two men drove 10 miles to Jim Thorpe, the county seat, where the alleged hostage-taker was wounded. The Call said the officer may have shot himself. WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, citing Pennsylvania state police, said the man who was taken hostage fired at his captor, inflicting a serious head wound. Lansford Council President Rose Mary Cannon, who has two sons serving as police officers, called the incident scary. "You see crazy things happening in other places," she told the Call. "You don't want to see things like this happening this close to home."