Belmont – Police used tear gas to end a four-hour standoff at the Pine Gardens Mobile Home Park Thursday night.

Arrested following the standoff was Shayne Chase, 44, of 96 Scenic Drive, who had refused to leave the home and threatened violence when police arrived to arrest him on two charges of aggravated felonious sexual assault on a teen age girl.Police Chief Vinnie Baiochetti said that a regional SWAT team, the Belknap County Regional Special Operations Group, aided the Belmont police and fire departments at the scene.

Chase was armed with a rifle, a muzzle loader and hunting bow and refused several requests to leave the home according to Baiochetti. At around 12:30 a.m. police fired tear gas pellets into the home and arrested Chase when he came out of the building.``We were in contact with him by telephone and bullhorn throughout the incident,’’ said Baiochetti.

Nearby homes were evacuated during the standoff with about 60 people leaving the park, many of whom went to the Corner Meeting House in Belmont Village until the standoff ended.

Chase was taken to Lakes Region General Hospital and later held overnight at the Belknap County Jail on $60,000 cash bail.

He was arraigned in Laconia District Court Friday on the two sexual assault charges and a charge of resisting arrest and is being held at the Belknap County Jail on $60,000 cash bail.