Police say they arrested an armed domestic violence suspect after a two-hour standoff that stretched into the early morning at a Downtown Long Beach apartment.
At about 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a report of domestic violence at an apartment on Magnolia Avenue near Fourth Street, according to Long Beach police.
When they arrived, officers found an injured woman who told them the man responsible had barricaded himself inside an apartment and was armed, police said.
Paramedics treated the woman at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers attempted to get the man out of the apartment, but called in a SWAT team when he refused, police said.
According to reports from the scene, police evacuated the building and then deployed a flashbang device.
Monsor Middleton, who lives across the street from the apartment building where the suspect was barricaded, told ABC7 he heard the flashbang from his apartment.
“It sounded like a bomb went off,” he said. “It was very tense.”
After roughly two hours, the man gave himself up, police said, adding that officers recovered two firearms.
The man was identified as 26-year-old Luis Angel Del Valle, of Long Beach.
Del Valle was booked into jail on suspicion of false imprisonment, felony domestic violence and obstructing/resisting a peace officers.
He was being held on $50,000 bail.