A standoff with a SWAT team is underway after a suspect fled from Beverly Hills police in a pickup truck and crashed into a vehicle Sunday.
As of Sunday evening, traffic was snarled at Robertson Boulevard and Burton Way, which is on the border between Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Grove.
Law enforcement officers were attempting to negotiate with the suspect to exit the vehicle. An L.A. County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team has assumed tactical command, the agency said just before 7 p.m.
Beverly Hills police attempted to pull over the suspect, who was driving a gray Ford pickup truck, at around 1:30 p.m. after they received an automated license plate recognition alert tying the the vehicle to a felony under investigation.
Police tried pulling him over around the area of Beverly and San Vicente boulevards, a major intersection adjacent to the Beverly Center shopping mall and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
There was a short pursuit that ended when the pickup truck crashed with a vehicle at Robertson Boulevard and Burton Way, police said in a statement.
