Bulloch County Sheriff's deputies captured an armed suspect in Brooklet early Saturday morning after they say he threatened to kill his wife with a gun.
        Steven Craig Tuck of M.P. Martin Road also pointed a gun at sheriff's deputies responding to the domestic disturbance call, said Bulloch County Sheriff Noel Brown.
        Around midnight, deputies arrived at Tuck's home in Brooklet, where Cpl. Ross Newman met with the female victim, who said her husband, Tuck, "pointed a gun at her head and threatened to kill her," he said.
        Newman learned Tuck, 56, had left the home and went into a barn on the property. The victim said he had a gun, and there were additional guns in the barn, he said.
        Additional deputies arrived to assist Newman, including Cpl. Mark Guarino and his K9 partner Gismo, trained to help apprehend suspects.
        They surrounded the barn, and ordered Tuck to come out, "unarmed with hands in the air," Brown said.
        Tuck then opened a door and aimed a handgun at Guarino and Gismo, then quickly retreated back inside, he said.
        After further commands to drop the gun and come out with hands in the air, Tuck exited the barn tossed the gun aside and laid down on his stomach. However, as deputies approached him to take him into custody, he "began resisting arrest" and deputies, after subduing him, found another gun in his pocket, Brown said.
        Charged with aggravated assault against a police officer, aggravated assault (against the victim), reckless conduct, obstruction and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, Tuck was taken to the Bulloch County Jail, where he remains without bond.
        Brown said he commends the deputies involved "for taking the needed action to protect the victim from further harm and taking the offender into custody without injury to anyone involved."

        Holli Deal Saxon may be reached at (912) 489-9414.