The Mustang was returned to the complex and found by officers at 12:45 p.m. The owner later told officers he was pistol-whipped and held against his will by the suspects, but was allowed to leave after police deployed a drone over the complex to announce they were looking for the suspects, according to The Orange County Register. A SWAT team responded about 6:55 p.m. and after hours of negotiation without a resolution, the SWAT team fired less-than-lethal rounds to break windows of the residence, the newspaper reported. "The device is loud, so that may have motivated them to give up at that point," Irvine police Sgt. Karie Davies told the Register.