Latest: The officer is being treated at a local hospital.

Nearly four hours after Honolulu police reported that a law enforcement officer had been shot in Kapahulu, federal and local law enforcement officers remained in a standoff with the suspect, who had barricaded themselves inside a house on Herbert Street.

The officer was shot this morning while executing a federal narcotics search warrant as part of task force with the federal Drug Enforcement Division, according to an emailed statement from DEA spokesperson Rosa Valle-Lopez. DEA agents and task force officers “encountered an individual, who began firing a weapon. During this encounter, a task force officer from a partner agency sustained a gunshot injury.”

The officer is being treated at a local hospital with non-life-threatening

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