Twenty-six people were arrested at an illegal gambling site in Koreatown early Saturday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Police responded to a call of an armed man holding someone hostage shortly after 4 a.m. in the 3400 block of West 8th Street near Kingsley Drive, said LAPD spokesman Officer Charles Miller.
Police found an abandoned warehouse being used as an illegal gambling site. Twenty-six people were detained and six of them were arrested on outstanding warrants.
“We received a radio call of a man armed with a gun and officers discovered an illegal gambling operation,” Miller said.
The alleged gunman and the hostage were not found at the scene and no injuries were reported, Miller said.
Those arrested are in prison awaiting booking and no further information is available, he said. The rest of the detained people were released.
Video footage obtained by KTLA shows about a dozen police officers in tactical gear outside the building. Nearly two dozen people appear to be detained with their hands tied.
