With pizza and patience, cops win 9-hour bank hostage standoff in St. Cloud The ordeal at Wells Fargo bank in St. Cloud ended with all five hostages escaping serious injury and the suspect arrested. May 7, 2021 — 3:14pm Text size Copy shortlink: ST. CLOUD – Roughly eight hours into a nine-hour standoff at a Wells Fargo bank in St. Cloud on Thursday evening, crisis negotiators brought pizza to the bank's front doors. Shortly after, the last of five hostages made a break for the door and rushed outside as officers entered the building and took the 35-year-old suspect into custody. None of the captives — all employees of the bank on St. Cloud's west side — suffered life-threatening injuries, officials said. But the situation was fraught with threats from the suspect that escalated and waned during the afternoon and evening.