MEADVILLE, Pa.—A northwestern Pennsylvania man is jailed on assault, endangerment and other charges in connection with a police standoff prompted by a pump-action BB gun that police say looked like a shotgun.

Meadville police responded about 5:45 p.m. Sunday when two men reported that 47-year-old Anthony Dupont taunted them from his porch and then cocked the gun as though he planned to fire it.

When police responded and knocked on Dupont's apartment door he didn't answer. Fearing a confrontation, police evacuated other units in the building and eventually persuaded Dupont to surrender during a telephone call.

Online court records don't list an attorney for Dupont who is also charged with public drunkenness.

He remained in the Crawford County Jail Tuesday unable to post $50,000 bond and faces a preliminary hearing July 5.