Crime & Safety
SWAT Team Waits For NoHo Barricaded Suspect To 'Sober Up'
A neighborhood was evacuated, but a four-and-a-half-hour standoff in North Hollywood ended peacefully.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA — A suspect who barricaded himself in a home in Valley Village late Wednesday afternoon after police responded to the location to investigate a shots fired call was taken into custody after a more than four- hour standoff.
The standoff began about 5:30 p.m. in the 12300 block of Burbank Boulevard, between Whitsett Avenue and Laurel Canyon Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
A SWAT team was called in to try to bring the matter to a peaceful conclusion, police said.
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The man was taken into custody about 9:45 p.m., NBC4 reported.
The suspect was believed to be intoxicated and officers waited for him to sober up before taking him into custody, NBC4 said.
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"This is the way we want all of these (standoffs) to end, no loss of life, no injuries," LAPD Capt. Don Graham told NBC4. "While the community is impacted, the reverence for life overcomes all of that, which is why we come out with the resources that we do."
Several nearby apartments were evacuated during the standoff. Those residents were allowed to return home Wednesday evening.
City News Service