Search for indecent exposure suspect closes Sherman Oaks streets

Pretty fluid situation right now. I think the cops do now have someone in custody on this one. Stay tuned and I'll update you later.

Here's how the case began:

A rookie LAPD officer twisted or broke his ankle this morning during a confrontation with an indecent exposure suspect who disappeared somewhere in the wash of the Los Angeles River, prompting a search on the streets around the Ventura Freeway near Woodman Avenue, police said.

The drama began before 9 a.m. as the probationary officer and his partner responded to a call of a man described as a heavyset Latino in a blue jacket at Stern Avenue and Valleyheart Drive, which abutts the L.A. River.

The man resisted, and somehow the officer twisted his ankle on a fence, prompting a call for paramedics. The officer was taken to a local hospital. Police didn't immediately know the status of his ankle.

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