In line with NBC Information and KCAL Information, on Thursday night time, the Los Angeles Police Division (LAPD) responded to a report from a household who claimed they heard banging noises coming from below the El Sereno residence, saying that they had been listening to the weird sounds for weeks.

When officers arrived on the scene, they reportedly found a unadorned man below the house in a crawl house.

The aged girl’s grandson informed KCAL Information that it took hours for police to get the person to give up and are available out of the opening, with officers reportedly resorting to tear fuel. In line with the outlet, the household referred to as police round 9 p.m. on Thursday night time, and the bare man didn’t come out of the house till 4:30 a.m. early Friday morning.

The girl’s grandson additionally mentioned police found blankets and meals below the house, including that police allegedly consider the person had been coming into the crawl house at night time and leaving within the morning. The LAPD described the person, per KCAL Information, as a “barricaded suspect.”

In the meantime, the 93-year-old girl’s son-in-law, Richard Silva, described the noises the household allegedly heard for weeks.

“It was often late at night time, and we simply chucked it off to animals being below the home,” Silva informed NBC Information.

“The noises have been sort of like knocking. It was sort of like, as my spouse was strolling, they have been sort of knocking again from below the home so she says, ‘You recognize one thing’s improper,’” he continued, including the sounds grew to become louder on Thursday night time.

The person was arrested by police and was recognized by 27-year-old Isaac Betancourt, per NBC Information and KCAL Information.

“He refused to go away. He wasn’t fearful of the canine, and the primary two makes an attempt at fuel didn’t fish him out,” Silva recalled to NBC Information.

Whereas it is but to be confirmed how lengthy Betancourt had been residing within the crawl house, the household believes he could have been staying below the house for as much as six months, in response to the outlet.

Per NBC Information, the opening is barely two toes excessive, expands below the house, and has three factors of entry, with the household reportedly suspecting he would use one entryway to come back and go.

Silva informed the outlet that the state of affairs is “weird,” however “not in all probability unusual.” He added, “At the present time, persons are in search of shelter.”

The household added that they plan to safe the house to verify an identical state of affairs cannot happen sooner or later.

Police arrested Betancourt for trespassing, in response to NBC Information. Nonetheless, he additionally faces a misdemeanor cost, per PEOPLE, citing Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division inmate information. In accordance bought the outlet, Betancourt was launched on Saturday and is scheduled to seem in courtroom subsequent month.