Parking dispute leads to SWAT standoff in Long Beach, police say

File photo of a Long Beach Police Department SWAT vehicle. Long Beach police say they had to call in SWAT officers to arrest a woman who reportedly threatened her neighbor during an argument about parking early this morning. Police said the dispute began around 12:50 a.m. on Cherry Avenue near Anaheim Street. Two women were outside when they had a disagreement about parking, according to police. “It escalated,” LBPD spokeswoman Arantxa Chavarria said, and one woman reportedly hit the other with some kind of object and then brandished a gun. When officers arrived, the woman with the gun was back inside her home and refused to come out, according to police. Eventually, the department called in SWAT officers around 5 a.m., and the woman came outside and surrendered around 5:50 a.m., Chavarria said. Support our journalism. Hyperlocal news is an essential force in our democracy, but it costs money to keep an organization like this one alive, and we can’t rely on advertiser support alone. That’s why we’re asking readers like you to support our independent, fact-based journalism. We know you like it—that’s why you’re here. Help us keep hyperlocal news alive in Long Beach.

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