Suspect plays hide and seek with deputies

Around 4:00 pm this afternoon here in Lancaster,  a suspect attempting to flee from Los Angeles County Sheriff's  Deputies managed to temporarily evade capture by hiding in some tumbleweed bushes  in a homeless community located in the vicinity of East Avenue G and 30th Street East. 

.    For over an hour and a half about ten sheriff's  patrol vehicles scoured the area looking for the suspect. The Deputies learned he was in an area of the desert with large amounts of desert vegetation, including tumbleweed bushes and  it was those bushes that the suspect crawled under  where he remained hidden  while Deputies both on the ground and in the air continued their search.

At one point, Deputies in the air instructed the suspect to come out from under the bushes and surrender himself. They also informed the suspect that they (the deputies) were not going to go away and if the suspect did not surrender himself they would release the dogs and that the dogs would bite him. 

Only a few minutes later the suspect began running,  again attempting to escape but was blocked by a sheriff's vehicle and then another from the opposite direction.  It was at that point that the suspect surrendered and was taken into custody.

An ambulance and multiple fire department personnel were on hand a short distance away because as one of the fire truck crew members said, "ya just never can tell what is going to happen in these types of situations." 

.  This just goes to show if you wanna play hide and seek with deputies here in the Antelope Valley, you're probably gonna get tagged.

.  AV Street Beats was unable to learn exactly what the suspect was wanted for not how the chase began but will bring you updated information if it becomes available.

.  The suspect is not believed to have been living within the homeless community where the incident took place and none of the homeless who did reside there were involved in the incident.