Police are still searching for a possible burglary suspect whom they originally thought had barricaded himself inside a tented home in Bluff Park Thursday morning leading to street closures and the S.W.A.T. team being deployed.

Officers responded to a call of a suspicious person at 5:45 a.m. to a residence on the 2900 block of East 1st Street. Two subjects were observed in a yard of a house at First Street near Orizaba that was tented for fumigation, said Lt. Marcus Hodge of the LBPD.

Police arrived and detained one suspect, a 25-year-old Long Beach man identified as Conception Sanchez. He was arrested and booked on charges of residential burglary and resisting a police officer. Sanchez is being held on $50,000 bail.

However, a second suspect was believed to be in the home because  police on scene were receiving “activations of motion inside the house,” said Hodge. Police then set up a S.W.A.T. perimeter and deployed a flash grenade to help force out the suspect.

 

Streets in the area were still closed to traffic and S.W.A.T. officers were still on scene late Thursday morning. Around noon, an LBPD spokesperson said that the S.W.A.T. officers had concluded their search and had found no suspect.

With the second suspect still missing the investigation is still ongoing.

The homeowner, who did not want to give her name, said she saw someone “crawling through her window” through her security application on her phone. She said the family was staying at a nearby hotel when they their security system alerted them of motion in the house.

Several neighbors were watching the scene, gathered behind yellow tape. Scott Klodowski, who lives next door said his wife was awoken at 4:30 a.m. when she heard screaming between two people.

“It’s usually a very safe neighborhood,” Klodowski said. However, he said his own home was broken into last month. “We all know each other. We all watch out for each other.”

Editors note: This story has been updated with additional information