Twenty-six-year-old Joshua Baker is placed under arrest for robbery Monday afternoon. For about six hours, Baker and an unknown female barricaded themselves in his apartment where they were taken out by the SWAT and sheriff’s deputies around noon Monday. Jakes Way and Sandy Drive were taped off by sheriff deputies from around 6 a.m. until noon.

What began as a purse-snatching in Canyon Country spun wildly out of control Monday when one suspect punched a sheriff’s deputy and another holed up in a nearby apartment for hours with his girlfriend, authorities said reports Brandon Lowrey in today’s edition of The Signal.

Daren Knutson, 39, and Joshua Baker, 26, were arrested in the incident, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Tom Bryski – Knutson on suspicion of the robbery and assaulting a sheriff’s deputy and Baker on suspicion of robbery.

At about 5:45 a.m., a woman flagged down a car and asked the motorist to call police. She said two men had punched her and snatched some items out of her purse.

She pointed sheriff’s deputies to Knutson and Baker. They went to question Knutson and things got messy.

“(Deputies) went to detain him, and the fight was on,” Bryski said.

Knutson punched one deputy in the mouth and struggled with deputies for several minutes before they were able to handcuff him.

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