Beverly Hills standoff ends; unresponsive person taken from van

BEVERLY HILLS — Beverly Hills constabulary officers, a SWAT squad and a weaponry squad surrounded a achromatic van successful a engaged Beverly Hills intersection Saturday night.

The standoff began astir 6:10 p.m., according to a constabulary dispatcher.

#Breaking: Beverly Hills Police, SWAT and a weaponry squad are astatine the country of a reported suspicious point connected Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive successful Beverly Hills. https://t.co/MEbqjLtUCc

— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) November 28, 2021

A connection from the Beverly Hills Police Department said that preliminary accusation indicated that the section had “received telephone calls of a van causing a postulation hazard determination successful the country of Wilshire and Spalding. When constabulary units attempted to interaction the operator of the van, it drove disconnected and yet came to a halt wrong the intersection of Wilshire and Rodeo.”

Broadcast reports astir 11:36 p.m. said the standoff was implicit and constabulary had removed an unresponsive idiosyncratic from the vehicle.

#BeverlyHills standoff over. SWAT broke broadside window, utilized drone to instrumentality a look in, squad made attack and recovered fishy unconscious, FD cleared in. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/48tzk6x0VA

— Kevin Takumi (@KevinTakumi) November 28, 2021

Police could not instantly corroborate fig of occupants successful the van, saying that the windows were “covered with what appears to beryllium aluminum paper.”

A drone was besides being utilized successful the standoff situation.

Wilshire was closed betwixt Beverly and Camden drives