Residents in a Long Beach neighborhood woke up to the sound of explosions and a SWAT team on their street as police served a search warrant early Wednesday morning.

Neighbors said the commotion along Magnolia Avenue just north of Anaheim Street woke them up around 5 a.m. One resident, Miranda Cameron, said she heard an especially loud blast around that time.

“It set off all the car alarms,” she said.

The explosions were devices used to distract the people police were trying to arrest, said LBPD Sgt. A. Burleson, who would not provide his first name. He said he did not know what type of crime the search warrant was related to.

The operation started around 5:17 a.m., according to Sgt. Vincent Otto. When teams of officers descended on the area, one person they were looking for barricaded himself in his apartment near 15th Street and Magnolia, Otto said.

Police evacuated some residents near the apartment “for their safety,” Otto said.

One SWAT officer still had a rifle trained on an apartment around 7:30 a.m. and teams were maneuvering armored vehicles through the nearby alleyways.

Around 8 a.m. police had three men handcuffed on the curb and the SWAT team started leaving the area. Otto said at least one person was taken into custody.