Woman in custody after barricading in apartment with machete
Traffic was delayed in parts of central Las Vegas on Monday morning due to a woman barricaded in an apartment with a machete.
Las Vegas police officer Misael Parra said police were called to an apartment on the 1100 block of East Desert Inn Road at 9:13 a.m. for a “family disturbance.”
Both westbound and eastbound lanes of Desert Inn Road were closed from Cambridge Street to Maryland Parkway as of 10:40 a.m. A SWAT team was called to the scene and, a short time later, several loud bangs were heard in a nearby apartment complex.
At 12:30 p.m. Parra confirmed that the woman was taken into custody. She was taken to a hospital for treatment and evaluation. The intersection was then reopened to traffic.
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