LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A woman who brandished a knife at someone in North Long Beach was arrested by a SWAT team after barricading herself inside her home, police say.<\/p>\n
Officers responded about 7:20 p.m. Thursday to a dispute call in the 5700 block of Ackerfield Avenue, near the intersection of Paramount Boulevard and South Street.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, the officers learned that the suspect had pulled a knife on someone and threatened to harm that person, according to Long Beach Police.<\/p>\n
“Officers attempted to contact the suspect, but she barricaded
herself inside her residence and refused to exit,” LBPD spokesman Sgt. Bradford Stein said.<\/p>\n
“After multiple attempts by officers to de-escalate the situation, SWAT resources were used to safely take the
suspect into custody,” he added.<\/p>\n
A further description of the woman, including her name and age, was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing, Stein said.<\/p>\n
City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A woman who brandished a knife at someone in North Long Beach was arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-229117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}