SALEM, Ore. -- A bizarre crime in which an intruder told his victim to contact police ended in the man's arrest Monday, deputies said.

Marion County deputies arrested 22-year-old Francisco Tolento-Ramiez on several charges after an incident at the Cedar Court Apartments on Silvercedar Place in northeast Salem.

Erma Gutierrez said she heard a knock on her door in the middle of the afternoon and didn't think twice about it.

"I saw this man standing there and I thought he was gonna sell something," she said.

When she cracked the door open, the man, who police identified as Tolento-Ramiez, forced his way inside, deputies said.

Gutierrez said Tolento-Ramiez told her that he wanted her to call police because people with guns were chasing him.

"I looked at him and I'm like, 'I don't care! I want you out of my house!'" Gutierrez said. "Why did you pick my apartment?"

Deputies said he didn't leave and that he was armed with what they later determined to be an airsoft gun that had been modified to look like a real handgun.

Meanwhile, Gutierrez said her son was beginning to panic.

"He started getting scared when I said he had a gun," she said. "He started crying. I couldn't believe this was happening to me during the day -- it was very nice outside."

Gutierrez called emergency dispatchers and crawled into the bathtub with her children and brother. She and her family hid there until deputies arrived and arrested the suspected intruder.

Tolento-Ramiez was booked into jail on four counts of kidnapping, four counts of coercion and four counts of menacing, as well as charges of burglary, harassment, unlawful use of a weapon and carrying a concealed weapon.