A woman was taken into custody after law enforcement officers surrounded a Downtown Pittsburgh parking garage with guns drawn on Wednesday afternoon.
The tense situation started when law enforcement was looking for a woman wanted on federal firearm charges, authorities said. Sources told KDKA the woman was a passenger in a vehicle that Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officers tried to pull over around 4 p.m. The driver then pulled into the garage on Stanwix Street and Fort Duquesne Boulevard, sources added.
A spokesperson for Pittsburgh Public Safety said in a statement that the woman ran and threw a gun under a car in the garage. Another Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson added in a statement that the police presence stemmed from a joint operation between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the bureau’s Pittsburgh Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit, saying the woman was taken into custody after getting out of the vehicle and fleeing…