DETROIT (WWJ) - Federal and local police on Wednesday raided several homes in northeast Detroit as a result of a drug investigation that started back in January.
Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said the raids were carried out by Warren and Detroit officers along with agents from the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency at 10 homes across Detroit.
Two of the raids took place on Winchester Street near 8 Mile Road and Dequindre. In that neighborhood, some students were walking to school as police executed warrants at the homes.
Police said eight people were arrested and large amounts of heroin, crack cocaine, guns and money were confiscated. Authorities did not release any information about any of the suspects
Layola Downer, who lives next to one of the homes that was raided, says there is definitely a drug problem in the neighborhood.
"They be so sick. They come over from Warren and just be so sick over it, they just be throwing up, you know what I'm saying. Why you come down here throwing up? Go back across there," Downer told WWJ's Charlie Langton.
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said the Warren Special Investigation Division worked with the DEA on this operation, which he said will have a major impact on the heroin trade and opioid epidemic in metro Detroit.
"This was a major drug organization that was supplying heroin, fentanyl, crack cocaine to the Warren/Detroit metro area. Warren undercover officers were purchasing drugs from these drug suppliers," Fouts wrote in a Facebook post.
"This is a major blow to the illicit drug dealers in the Warren/Detroit metro area. Seized this morning was money, dope, and guns. Now we are all a little safer. Now that many of the dealers of death are in custody."
Fouts said federal indictments will be forthcoming against multiple suspects in this case.
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