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Nov 3, 2008 10:14 am US/Pacific

Armed Man Blocking Calif. Highway Surrenders

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) ― A masked gunman who waved an American flag from a highway overpass in Southern California has surrendered to police after forcing a shutdown of the freeway for hours.

A TV helicopter over the scene showed the man giving up to police at midmorning Monday.

Police Sgt. Lorenzo Duarte said earlier that the man, wearing a ski mask and brown fatigues, had the flag in one hand and the gun in the other when officers arrived on the overpass just after 7:10 a.m.

Duarte says the man appeared to have an anti-war sentiment.

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