Lockdown!

LA media outlets are all over this one.

Basically, police were serving search and arrest warrants this morning when their targets slipped through the radar. As a result, four schools in Hacienda Heights are on lockdown, while cops from several agencies search for the pair — identified as a man and a woman.

Sounds like the cops are getting ready to go door to door in a neighborhood near Three Palms and Hacienda Blvd.

I’ll have a map later. Here’s the top of our updated news story:

HACIENDA HEIGHTS – Four schools in Hacienda Heights are on lockdown Thursday morning to aid in the search for two robbery-and-assault suspects, according to authorities.

Kwis Elementary School, Newton Middle School, Los Altos High School and Shadybend Elementary school have all been shut down while authorities search for a man and woman suspected of robbery and assault near the 15500 block of Garo Street just south of Pomona (60) Freeway, according to Sgt. James Beamon with the Industry sheriff’s station.

Search dogs were going through a shed in a yard at Galemont Avenue and Three Palms Street and police had cordoned off at least four blocks in a neighborhood north of the 60 Freeway.

Helicopters and search teams were combing the neighborhood, according to Sgt. Stewart Sandecki.

Authorities were looking for a 25-year-old bald, male Hispanic with blue jeans and an LA Dodger’s jacket and a 22-year-old female Hispanic with dark hair, Sandecki said.

The two were suspected of armed robbery earlier this week, he said. When deputies served a search warrant on a house Thursday morning, the suspects were gone. But deputies received information that the suspects were still in the neighborhood, Sandecki said.

Deputies at the scene said the suspects are likely armed and dangerous.

The search for the suspects began around 6 a.m. Thursday morning, and the search was still going on 8:30 a.m., Beamon said.

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2 thoughts on “Lockdown!

  1. Twenty four units were on the scene this morning as well as the Sheriff’s helicopter. I would say they want this couple really bad!! You normally don’t see this type of response unless it is an officer involved shooting!! It was a sight to see all these units, marked and unmarked, flying down Hacienda Blvd.

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