Long Beach police arrested a suspect after calling in a SWAT team to scour an apartment building’s attic crawl space where he was believed to be hiding.

Officers surrounded the building on Newport Avenue near Seventh Street and began evacuating apartments after the suspect refused to come out Wednesday.

Police declined to say what the suspect was wanted for.

An apartment building surrounded by police on Newport Avenue near Seventh Street. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.

“The situation is fluid, and the investigation is ongoing,” Long Beach Police Department spokesperson Alyssa Baeza said in an email.

SWAT officers arrived at the scene around 1 p.m., and they began clearing apartments and attic spaces as they searched for the suspect.

Police said around 6 p.m. that the suspect was taken into custody and was being booked onto Long Beach City Jail.

A Long Beach Police Department SWAT officer outside of an apartment building where a suspect was believed to be hiding on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.

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.