Frank's Camera LAPD Standoff Was False Alarm

No arrests were made on Thursday evening after an hour-long LAPD standoff outside Frank's Highland Park Camera, as the suspect officers were attempting to arrest actually had permission to be inside the shop.

"It turned out to be nothing," said LAPD Northeast Division Sergeant Wayne Guillary. "They thought it was a burglary, but the guy actually had permission to be in there."

Officers blockaded North Figueroa Street at Avenue 57 at around 9 p.m. as they attempted to arrest the man inside Frank's Highland Park Camera.

A group of onlookers gathered at the corner of Ave. 58 to observe the standoff, and watched as armed officers and K-9's gathered outside the camera shop's front gate.

According to one witness who was on scene, officers communicated with the man inside the shop by megaphone, informing him that they would be unleashing K-9 officers into the building.

"They told him, 'You will get bit,'" the witness said.

At one point, a man was loaded into a police car that was parked in the intersection of Ave. 58 and N. Figueroa St.

"There was another guy around the building, but in the end nobody was arrested," Guillary said.