SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah highway was shut down midday Wednesday as a SWAT team responded to a man confronting them with a metal rod.

Officers tried to stop the man because he was driving erratically in a pickup truck that had spray-painted windows, as well as a United States flag obscuring the back window and license plate, KSL-TV reported.

The driver got out, but refused to talk to officers or do what they told him, police said. He swung the rod around aggressively and claimed to have a bomb and a shotgun in his truck, police said.

A SWAT team responded and tried to get the man to surrender using foam, gas and pepper spray rounds, as well as flash bangs. He nevertheless managed to jump over a barrier on the overpass and run down an embankment on the other side before he was taken into custody.

The highway was re-opened at 1:30 p.m., about 90 minutes after the chase began.