A heavy police presence and an armored vehicle kept residents off their porches for much of Saturday as law enforcement surrounded a home near 67th Street and Brentwood Avenue on Milwaukee’s far north side. Neighbors say the operation ran from morning into the evening, choking off traffic and ratcheting up nerves on an otherwise quiet residential block.
“I have never seen a road blocked off this far,” said neighbor Johnny Topin, who has lived in the area since childhood. By nightfall, residents said they still had not been given a clear explanation of what had unfolded on their street.
According to WISN, officers had been at the scene as early as 6 a.m., using a megaphone to announce that they had an arrest warrant while tactical teams focused on a single house. WISN’s on‑scene video shows officers in full tactical gear carrying rifles, with a heavy armored truck parked in the middle of the street. The station reported that at one point an officer threw what neighbors described as a grenade‑type device, after which smoke or gas poured from the home…