La Mirada~A woman was taken into custody early this morning in La Mirada after barricading herself inside the garage of her home for six hours in the 15200 block of Borda Road, as first reported by this website.

The woman reportedly was armed with a gun and threatened her husband, who left the property.

The incident was first reported on the La Mirada Blog Twitter feed at 9:55 p.m. and real-time updates continued into the night and early morning.

Residents were evacuated from nearby homes.

The Norwalk Sheriff’s, the SWAT team and a K-9 unit responded to the scene.

After several attempts failed to get the woman to come out, tear gas was deployed and the suspect was taken into custody without incident around 3:45 a.m.