Crime suspect arrested after standoff in Lakewood

An assault involving a deadly weapon suspect who barricaded himself in a vehicle and then tried to escape a sheriff’s office perimeter was taken into custody Thursday.

The standoff began when officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lakewood Station attempted to confront the suspect early Wednesday evening after receiving a call about reports of an attack involving a deadly weapon suspect in the area. Officers were able to contain the suspect’s SUV as he pulled into the parking lot of a Vons supermarket in the Carwood Shopping Center near Woodruff Avenue Carson Street, CBS 2 reported.

Officers placed several spike strips around the vehicle in case the suspect, who had barricaded himself in the SUV with a large dog, tried to escape and also called the department’s Special Enforcement Bureau to the scene in an attempt to convince the suspect to surrender to give.

After the several-hour standoff, the suspect drove over a parking lot divider and the spike strips and began a chase with deputies, LASD Deputy Daniel Dominguez told City News Service.

The chase ended not far from the mall, shortly after it began, when a patrol car and a special enforcement agency’s BearCat blocked the SUV near Carson Street and Parkcrest Street, Dominguez said. Officers fired multiple non-lethal rounds at the SUV after the man refused to surrender.

Shortly afterwards, the man climbed out of the SUV while holding the dog in his arms, but then ran from officers, video from the scene showed. After a brief pursuit, officers apprehended the man and took him into custody, Dominguez said.