RANGELEY PLANTATION – A cadre of police Saturday peacefully resolved an eight-hour stand-off with a Dixfield man whom police believed possessed a firearm and threatened to harm himself.

Oxford County Sheriff’s Department requested that Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies do a welfare check on Dana White, 37, at a camp on Bemis Track Road in Rangeley Plantation, Franklin County Lt. Niles Yeaton said Monday.

Deputies responded at about 12:50 p.m. and found White’s vehicle located at the camp but ended up calling in the Maine State Police Tactical Team to help talk White out of the camp, Yeaton said.

Rangeley police, U.S. Border Patrol and Maine Warden Services all assisted at the scene.

A state police negotiator was able to get White to come out of the camp without incident between 9:30 and 10 p.m., Yeaton said.

White was taken to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington for a mental health evaluation and then transferred to a mental health facility for further evaluation, Yeaton said.

White was charged with of violation of a protection order, possession of a firearm and criminal trespass, Yeaton said.

A person who has a protection order taken out against him or her cannot possess a firearm, the lieutenant said.

White had a shotgun in his possession, county Chief Deputy Ray Meldrum said Monday.