An armed woman engaged in a standoff with police has been arrested after a nearly three-hour barricade situation at a Panorama City hospital, police said Wednesday.
Members of a Los Angeles Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics team took the suspect into custody at 5:42 a.m., LAPD Officer Charles Miller told City News Service.
LAPD officers responded just before 2 a.m. Wednesday to Mission Community Hospital on the 14800 block of Roscoe Boulevard, an LAPD spokesman said.
The SWAT team arrived after 3 a.m., where they joined LAPD officers outside the hospital.
According to police, the suspect threatened a security guard at the hospital and then locked herself in a restroom.
The security guard was not injured.
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