STOCKTON — A man spent nearly three hours atop the Lincoln Center’s landmark L tower in Stockton on Saturday night before being safely removed by law enforcement, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.

“At about 6:30 p.m., we received a call that there was a man halfway up the Lincoln Center tower,” said Andrea Lopez, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office. “Our deputies responded and had been talking to him ever since.”

The man, who Lopez described to be in his late 20s, at one point reached the top of the approximately 100-foot Lincoln Center L sign. Lopez said a mobile crisis team and a hostage negotiation team were called to the scene, as well as California Highway Patrol officers and the Stockton Fire Department.

Just before 10 p.m., the man was successfully removed from the tower. Lopez said it wasn’t immediately known why the man had climbed the tower or why he decided to come down, but law enforcement officials were in the process of speaking with him.

“We’re going to evaluate him and see what caused this,” Lopez said.

The situation unfolded during a high-traffic time, Lopez said, and a parameter was set to keep civilians at a safe distance. A lot of resources were employed within the three hours that the man was on the tower, she said, but the department was just grateful to have a positive outcome.

“We’re always grateful for an ending like this,” Lopez said. “We just hope we can get him the assistance that he needs.”