Large police situation ends with 2 arrested on Detroit's east side, stolen cars recovered

DETROIT (FOX 2) - Hickory Street on the city's east side, was packed with police, and two tank SWAT teams Thursday afternoon. A neighbor says, earlier in the day, she noticed a couple of cars that didn't belong and thought they were stolen.

"Police was just flying up and down the street. I didn't know what was going on," neighbor Deborah Stokes said. "It was about, I say, a good 75 policemen out here."

For their part, Detroit Police say they were there to serve a search warrant as part of an ongoing investigation and will not release any information. Stokes says police told them to stay inside.

"I seen the police apprehend a young man right there on the grass and took him and put him in the police car, and the young man, brother who came out there said, 'Don't say nothing. Don't say nothing. Be quiet. Don't say nothing. You don't know nothing,'" she said.

As for the teens who were taken into custody, neighbor Stephon Clark Moore says he had hired the two brothers, ages 17 and 14, to work for his landscaping company.

"I was just trying to keep him on the right path, doing landscaping, cutting grass and stuff," Clark said. "I tried to give him a good opportunity to make some cash, you know, I thought they was on the right track, trying to, you know, be good people out here."

It's not clear just what if any charges, the teens could be facing. Hours later stolen cars were still being towed from the alley behind the houses on Hickory.

Some of the people who live in this duplex say they weren't home at the time, but saw the police and were scared for their four children, ages 5, 8, 14, and 16, who were inside.

Their kids are okay.

Sources say police had been chasing a suspect in a homicide in the shooting of a child who survived. Earlier this week, a little boy was shot as he slept in the living room of a home on nearby Fairmount. He's expected to be okay.

Neighbors say they're concerned because there have been so many high-profile crimes in this area in the last few months.

In July, there was a deadly mass shooting at a block party on Rossini and back in June, Oakland County Sheriff's Deputy Bradley Reckling was ambushed and killed just blocks away from the scene on Thursday.

"We're just worried about the crime that's in the area," said one woman who lives nearby. "It was a mass shooting, and there was another shooting that involved a child. We got to keep us safe out here."