Crime & Safety
Police Try To Coax Man Out Of Closet In Hollywood
A man holed himself inside a closet at a home in Hollywood Thursday night while police worked to coax him out.
HOLLYWOOD, CA — Police were trying Thursday evening to coax a possibly mentally ill man to leave a Hollywood residence where he had locked himself in a closet.
The situation was not being described as a barricade as the man is not armed and had not threatened anyone, said Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Division.
Still, there was a large police presence outside of the residence in the 6000 block of La Mirada Avenue, near Gower Street, where police were called to about 8:30 p.m. by a former girlfriend of the man.
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Lopez said officers were working to get the man to exit the closet.
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