A man armed with an ax is hiding from deputies inside a car wash in Carson in an ongoing standoff Tuesday, according to a Sheriff’s Department watch commander.
The “police activity” was reported at Alondra and Avalon boulevards, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in an advisory, which urged people to avoid the area just after 1 p.m.
A watch commander at the department’s Carson Station said a call came in about vandalism, and when deputies got to the scene, there was a man with an ax barricaded inside a car wash.
Deputies, some in SWAT gear, were at the Aquamax car wash.
Authorities on scene said the man was inside the second story of a building attached to the car wash.