A standoff with a SWAT team is underway after a suspect fled from Beverly Hills police in a pickup truck and crashed into a vehicle Sunday. <\/p>\n
As of Sunday evening, traffic was snarled at Robertson Boulevard and Burton Way, which is on the border between Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Grove. <\/p>\n
Law enforcement officers were attempting to negotiate with the suspect to exit the vehicle. An L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s Department SWAT team has assumed tactical command, the agency said just before 7 p.m. <\/p>\n
Beverly Hills police attempted to pull over the suspect, who was driving a gray Ford pickup truck, at around 1:30 p.m. after they received an automated license plate recognition alert tying the the vehicle to a felony under investigation.<\/p>\n
Police tried pulling him over around the area of Beverly and San Vicente boulevards, a major intersection adjacent to the Beverly Center shopping mall and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. <\/p>\n
There was a short pursuit that ended when the pickup truck crashed with a vehicle at Robertson Boulevard and Burton Way, police said in a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A standoff with a SWAT team is underway after a suspect fled from Beverly Hills police in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[126478,91782,126475,126477,350,348,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,2322,224,31406,126476,6770,25565,2131,178],"class_list":["post-298619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-beverly-center-shopping-mall","tag-beverly-grove","tag-beverly-hills-police-pursuit","tag-burton-way","tag-crash","tag-investigation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-officer","tag-p-m","tag-pickup-truck","tag-robertson-boulevard","tag-standoff","tag-sunday-evening","tag-suspect","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298619","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=298619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}