Armed suspect taken into custody after holing up in Westlake apartment
A reported gang sweep by police shut down a Westlake neighborhood for roughly two hours early Thursday when a man targeted in the operation barricaded himself inside a home, authorities said.
The sweep began before 5 a.m. in the neighborhood around San Marino and Hoover streets, police said. Officers were serving search warrants in the area when the man holed up inside an apartment, KTLA reported.
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Police evacuated the building and put residents on buses to keep warm while they tried to persuade the man to surrender. He was taken into custody after 7 a.m., Officer Liliana Preciado said.
Witnesses told KTLA the man jumped out of a window in an attempt to flee.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone else had been taken into custody as part of the raid, Preciado said.
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