A local, state and federal gang task force served arrest and search warrants across Indianapolis Thursday. The warrants are in response to an undercover surveillance investigation, a source tells Eyewitness News.
They served warrants at a home on Sheehan Place, at another home on Patricia Street and also on Gerrard Avenue.
The multi-jurisdiction task force made up of local state and federal officers is conducting a warrant sweep on yet another Indianapolis area crime and drug gang. The undisclosed arrest and search warrants come after months of surveillance and undercover investigations by the task force.
The task force is raiding two houses in Indianapolis in connection with an investigation into weapons and drugs trafficking.
Marion County deputies transported warrant suspect after warrant suspect all throughout the afternoon Thursday.
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It the kind of crime-fighting that neighbor Randy Lambert welcomes. He raised his family in northwest Indianapolis and refuses to give in to criminals.
"If you look at this block, it's pretty good. I noticed some things happened on 30th Street and some things on Georgetown," he said.
The task force worked its way through a list of addresses, making arrests at homes throughout the city. Federal agents say the suspects are linked to repeated drug and gun sales and promise more undercover investigations to catch the suspects.
"We sure hope this sends a message to them that they are not going to be able to do that because we are going to keep doing this, it's our job," said Suzanna Dabkowski, Bureau of ATF & Explosives.
Some of the people taken into custody will face not only state charges but federal charges as well.
Randy Lambert, meantime, not only monitors the crimes in his northwest neighborhood. He says his blue porch light is just one sign of how he supports the officers on the street.
"You used to see them drive by, the police, and then go on. But now if they see you out they kind of talk. Yeah, I got the blue light up because of Ronny Hicks and things like that. I kind of support them," said Lambert.
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