Cell phone video shows Boston Police busting an illegal nightclub early Monday morning on Rexford Street in Mattapan.
“So when they open up that bulkhead back there, they come out like roaches, they come flying out,” said one neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified.
In the video, you can see dozens of people running away and hopping a fence after officers arrived.
Police say they found more than fifty people in the basement, which was converted into a club with a fully stocked bar and multiple hookahs.
Police also seized three guns and arrested two men for disorderly conduct and trespassing among several other charges.
“Every weekend is a big party and the aftermath is like trash, bottles, the loudness,” said a neighbor. “Forty years on this street and I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Police say they heard smoke alarms blaring from the basement when they got there Monday morning around 4:30 AM, and they made forced entry after fearing life-threatening conditions.
“Four in the morning, they got their systems, they’re waking the whole neighborhood, you can hear their cars coming from down the street, boom, boom, boom, every weekend,” said a neighbor.