VIDEO: Bodycam footage shows the arrests of 3 hotel employees following SWAT situation

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - WTOC is learning new details about a SWAT situation at a hotel near the Savannah Hilton Head International Airport.

It happened June 1 and later led to the arrest of three hotel employees. The scene lasted hours outside of the Comfort Inn near the airport.

Body camera footage from airport police paired with the incident report now paints a clearer picture as to what happened.

Airport police responded just before 5 p.m. that Sunday evening after a call about a firearm in the hotel.

Body cam footage obtained by WTOC shows officers speaking with the first two employees through a translation app, and then through a translator as they tried to find out what happened.

Police identified those men as Alexander Blanco-Medina and Jean Nieves-Ortiz. With a vague idea of what happened within the hotel, the search began to find the third suspect Yeiker Luis Arevalo Hernandez.

Police put two men in handcuffs as they continued to investigate.

The incident report states officers could see the altercation under investigation on camera.

Police say they had two of the men in the video but the 3rd was nowhere to be found until the hotel’s camera showed Hernandez had gone into a room and wasn’t seen leaving.

That’s when this investigation turned to an active SWAT situation.

Any attempts to get into the room, halted but an intentionally broken door, and any calls to the room, unanswered account to the incident report.

Hours later, once the police were able to get inside the room, it was empty. It wasn’t until the following day when Hernandez turned himself in.

Police believe that Hernandez avoided arrest by hiding out overnight in a wooded area near the hotel.

All three men have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and terroristic threats and acts and have an ICE hold on them.