LAKEWOOD, Wash. -- A 52-year-old man who had two home-made bombs in his Lakewood apartment surrendered late Tuesday afternoon after a nearly seven-hour standoff with police.

Lakewood police took the man to a hospital. He will be booked into the Pierce County Jail on possession of explosive devices.

The man was inside his apartment in the 6400 block of Mount Tacoma Drive Southwest since about 11 a.m. before he surrendered shortly before 6 p.m. He faced the police, a cooperative city SWAT team and the Pierce County bomb squad.

Police spokesman Dave Guttu says the standoff began when Lakewood Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at 11:04 a.m. to check on the man who was acting strangely.

The man was belligerent and told paramedics to leave. As the paramedics left, they saw two canisters with fuses in them that appeared to be home-made bombs. The paramedics called Lakewood police.

The police initially tried without success to contact the man on his telephone and cell phone, then used a robot to deliver the man a phone.

When the man went outside to get the phone, the SWAT team tried to take him into custody, but he got back into the apartment. Guttu says the man was involved in another standoff in Thurston County in 2003, when he barricaded himself from a SWAT team.