A Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) SWAT vehicle leaves the scene of a suspect search at 56th Street and Lime Avenue on Jan. 8, 2018. Photo by Jeremiah Dobruck.
File photo of a Long Beach Police Department SWAT vehicle.

Long Beach police say they had to call in SWAT officers to arrest a woman who reportedly threatened her neighbor during an argument about parking early this morning.

Police said the dispute began around 12:50 a.m. on Cherry Avenue near Anaheim Street.

Two women were outside when they had a disagreement about parking, according to police.

“It escalated,” LBPD spokeswoman Arantxa Chavarria said, and one woman reportedly hit the other with some kind of object and then brandished a gun.

When officers arrived, the woman with the gun was back inside her home and refused to come out, according to police.

Eventually, the department called in SWAT officers around 5 a.m., and the woman came outside and surrendered around 5:50 a.m., Chavarria said.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.