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LOS ANGELES - Police are in a standoff with a naked SUV driver who allegedly led officers on a short police chase through West Los Angeles Tuesday morning.

What we know:

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the incident started around 6:45 a.m. near 1100 Ovada Place after someone reported a woman screaming and possibly naked.

A pursuit was initiated just before 7 a.m., officials said.

That pursuit ended shortly afterward, about six blocks away, when the woman stopped in the middle of the road near Montana Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard in Brentwood , but wouldn't get out of the vehicle.

The SUV was blocked by a number of patrol vehicles and the standoff was ongoing nearly an hour after it began.

At one point, the woman threw a hammer out of the window.

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