Crime & Safety
Man Holed Up Inside Los Angeles Home Gives Up After 6-Hour Standoff
The man was armed with a pole, authorities said.
LOS ANGELES, CA — A man armed with a pole who holed up inside a Boyle Heights home in violation of a temporary restraining order surrendered to police after a nearly six-hour standoff, authorities said Sunday.
Officers were dispatched to a home in the 2500 block of Wabash Avenue at about 5:20 p.m. Saturday in response to a 26-year-old man violating a temporary restraining order, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
SWAT officers were dispatched to the location at about 9 p.m., and the suspect surrendered to police without further incident at about 11 p.m., police said.
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The department did not elaborate on what type of pole the man had.
— City News Service
