The Seaford Police Department says one of two suspects who skipped out on a restaurant bill Tuesday tried to evade officers by fleeing to a nearby hotel and armed himself with a bow and arrow.

Officers responded to the Grotto Pizza on Sussex Highway shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday for a report of two patrons leaving without paying their bill, according to police. The man, later identified as 28-year-old Schuyler Sutton of Silver Spring, Maryland, slapped a waitress' bottom as he left the restaurant, police said.

Officers quickly located the female suspect, 27-year-old Summer Bueso-Shinn of Silver Spring, and took her into custody, police said, but Sutton fled to a nearby hotel.

Officers tracked him to the Days Inn on Sussex Highway, where people had reported a man matching Sutton's description walking the hotel's hallways armed with a hunting-style bow and arrow, police said.

When officers tried to make contact with him at his hotel room, police said Sutton refused to come out. They then discovered there was an active warrant for his arrest out of Montgomery County for first-degree burglary.

Officers negotiated with Sutton for several hours before police said he surrendered and was taken into custody without further incident.

Bueso-Shinn has been charged with theft under $1,500 and second-degree conspiracy and was released on an unsecured bail pending a future court appearance, according to police.

Sutton has been charged with theft under $1,500, second-degree conspiracy, third-degree unlawful sexual contact, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and out of state fugitive. Police said he has been issued an unsecured bail for the new criminal charges, but has been committed to the Department of Corrections pending extradition on the Maryland warrant.

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