Crime & Safety
Suspect Barricades Himself in Local Home
A transient apparently threatened the owners of a home on South Barrington with a toy gun.
A man who threatened residents with a fake gun before holing up in the garage of a West L.A. home was taken into custody early Friday morning by a SWAT team that overpowered him with tear gas and bean bag pellets, police said.
The man, a transient in his early 40s, knocked on the door of a house in the 2000 block of South Barrington Avenue around 10 p.m. Thursday and began
arguing with the residents, who have lived there for over 50 years, about who
owns the property, said Sgt. John Juarez of the Los Angeles Police Department's West Los Angeles Station.
"He appeared to be holding a rifle that later turned out to be a toy or a prop," Juarez said.
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The residents fled the house and called police, and the suspect barricaded himself in the garage, he said.
Around 2 a.m., a SWAT team that had surrounded the garage flushed him out, using tear gas and bean bag pellets, according to Juarez.
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"He sustained bean bag welts, but he's going to be all right," Juarez said, adding that the suspect would be booked on suspicion of brandishing a firearm.
