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***Media Staging*** Corner of Foster Road & Bloomfield Avenue, Norwalk

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department’s Special Enforcement Bureau and Crisis Negotiation Team, are en route to the 12000 block of Rosecrans Avenue, Norwalk, regarding an armed suspect who has barricaded himself inside a residence.

At approximately 4:15 pm this afternoon, U.S. Marshals Service, Pomona Police Department, and the Department of Corrections, working as a Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force, attempted to arrest the suspect at the location. The suspect, a 38 year-old male adult, is currently on federal probation for bank robbery.

When the officers approached the residence, the suspect saw them and pointed a rifle at the officers. The suspect then ran back inside the residence.

The suspect was seen wearing a bulletproof vest.

There is confirmation that another male adult is also inside the residence.

Approximately 30 surrounding residences have been evacuated and relocated to Thomas B. Moffitt Elementary School, 13323 Goller Avenue, Norwalk.

There is no further information available at this time.

Authored by:
Juanita Navarro-Suarez, Deputy
Trina Schrader, Deputy
Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau - Newsroom
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