An armed suspect was taken into custody Wednesday after a four-hour plus standoff with police in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Police Department officers responded at approximately 11 p.m. Tuesday to West Sixth Street and Daisy Avenue regarding an armed suspect who had barricaded himself inside a nearby apartment, ABC 7 reported. A SWAT team was called to the scene and officers surrounded the building as another team tried to negotiate the suspect\u2019s surrender.<\/p>\n
According to reports from the scene, police evacuated the building and then deployed a flash bang device at the scene to draw the suspect out.<\/p>\n
Monsor Middelton, who lives across the street from the apartment building where the suspect was barricaded, heard the flash bang from his apartment. \u201cIt sounded like a bomb went off,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was very tense.\u201d<\/p>\n
SWAT officers then took the suspect into custody around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, ABC 7 reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An armed suspect was taken into custody Wednesday after a four-hour plus standoff with police in Long Beach.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[41668,2040,41669,174,131,133,132,2131],"class_list":["post-70730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-armed","tag-arrested","tag-barricaded","tag-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70730","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=70730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}