Long Beach police have surrounded an apartment building on Newport Avenue near Seventh Street where they were trying to corner a suspect reportedly moving around the building through an attic crawlspace.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the suspect was wanted for.
“The situation is fluid, and the investigation is ongoing,” Long Beach Police Department spokesperson Alyssa Baeza said in an email.
Police were evacuating apartments in the building and ordering the suspect to come out.
“Officers established a perimeter and are attempting to de-escalate the situation, but the suspect has refused to come out of the residence,” Baeza said.
SWAT officers arrived at the scene around 1 p.m., and they began clearing apartments and attic spaces as they searched for the suspect.
