Father arrested after 6-hour police standoff
A man upset over his wife’s request for a divorce held his two young daughters hostage in an apartment near MacArthur Park for about six hours Friday before police rammed through the front door and arrested him, authorities said.
Jonathan Yi, 43, was taken into custody about 7 a.m., said Lt. Roger Mora of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Yi’s wife called police about 1 a.m. to say he was in the apartment at 5th and Lake streets with their daughters, ages 7 and 9, police said.
“He had been drinking and he threatened her,” Mora said. “She ran out, and the daughters were sleeping.”
Mora said no one was hurt.
SWAT officers blew open the front door using a small explosive, Officer April Harding said.
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