A woman who allegedly threatened officers with a knife Friday barricaded herself for about three hours in a building in the Crenshaw district.
Officers were sent about 2:30 p.m. to the 4000 block of Nicolet Avenue to investigate a report of a knife-wielding woman behaving erratically, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.
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The woman threatened the officers and then retreated into a building and refused to surrender, Officer Sal Ramirez said.
A SWAT team was called to the scene, he said.
Officers made entry into the building and took her into custody about 5:30 p.m., Ramirez said.
–City News Service