An armed suspect was taken into custody on Wednesday after a four-hour-plus standoff with police in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Want to get caught up on what’s happening in SoCal every weekday afternoon? Click to follow The L.A. Local<\/a> wherever you get podcasts.<\/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,\u00a0 ABC 7 reported. A SWAT team was called to the scene and officers surrounded the building as another team tried to negotiate the suspect’s surrender.<\/p>\n According to reports from the scene, police evacuated the building and then deployed a flashbang 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. “It sounded like a bomb went off,” he said. “It was very tense.”<\/p>\n SWAT officers then took the suspect into custody around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, ABC 7 reported.<\/p>\n Follow KNX News 97.1 FM<\/p>\n Twitter<\/a> | Facebook<\/a> | Instagram<\/a> | TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n \n Featured Image Photo Credit: Getty Images\n <\/p>\n