A standoff is underway after a suspect fled from Beverly Hills Police in a pickup truck and crashed into a vehicle Sunday afternoon.
By Sunday evening, traffic was snarled at Robertson Boulevard and Burton Way, which is on the border between the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Beverly Hills and Beverly Grove. Officers were attempting to negotiate with the suspect to exit the vehicle. The LA County SWAT team is on scene, KTLA-TV Channel 5 reported.
Beverly Hills Police attempted to apprehend the suspect, who was driving a gray Ford pickup truck, around 1:30 p.m. when they received an automated license plate recognition alert linking the vehicle to the felony under investigation.
Police tried to capture the suspect around the area of ​​Beverly and San Vicente boulevards, a major intersection adjacent to the Beverly Center shopping mall and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
A brief pursuit ensued, which ended when the pickup truck crashed into a vehicle at Robertson Boulevard and Burton Way, police said in a statement.
Even after 5pm on Sunday, police were still trying to negotiate the surrender of the suspect or suspects inside the pickup truck
