Police arrest armed woman following standoff outside a vacant business on State Street Thursday

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Santa Barbara Police Department officers arrested a woman armed with a knife outside Restoration Hardware on State Street Thursday just after 10 a.m. following a standoff.

Parts of State Street near Ortega were closed as part of the law enforcement response and the public was asked to avoid the area, explained the SBPD.

Officers arrived and contacted the woman who then fled on foot with knives in each hand wielded at law enforcement, according to the SBPD.

Your News Channel was able to confirm that the woman is known to officers and is outside the storefront that was Restoration Hardware at 710 State Street.

Several agencies talked the woman down for about two hours before she eventually was taken into custody without injury, detailed the SBPD.

The woman is a 46-year-old Santa Barbara resident and was booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail on the following charges with a $50,000 bail:

• criminal threats
• resisting arrest
• possession of a dirk/dagger