CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. (WSVN) - Police swarmed an apartment complex in Coral Springs to execute search warrants and raid a home as they conducted a criminal investigation into an undisclosed case, giving neighbors a rude awakening.
SWAT teams with their guns drawn were seen outside the Windsor Castle apartments, located near Coral Springs Drive and Sample Road, ordering someone to come out of a unit, at around 8 a.m. Thursday.
Area residents took out their phone and hit record when they saw the officers in tactical gear.
“This is the Coral Springs Police Department. Anyone inside 3584 Coral Springs Drive, come to the front door now, please,” an officer using a bullhorn is heard saying in cellphone video.
A neighbor told 7News she and her family woke up to a loud ruckus, and not long after, heavily armed officers were entering an apartment unit.
“A loud boom, like, it sounded like, I would explain, like a transformer sound, like you know, when those blow out? Because it was very loud, and it echoed and woke us up, so that’s what we heard initially, like, around 7:50 a.m.” said the neighbor. “And then my kids came running into my room at 8, saying they heard a loud boom, and they were scared, and they were wondering what it was.”
Witnesses said a woman and a child were taken from the home some time later.
Coral Springs Police officers set up a tent and cornered off a section in front of the home in question. They spent the next several hours removing items from the home’s garage.
Once the occupants were out of the apartment, investigators said, they removed evidence for their ongoing investigation.
“We looked through the window, saw a whole bunch of officers in armor and guns or whatever, and [an officer was] on a loudspeaker saying, ‘Get out, open the door,'” said the neighbor who spoke with 7News.
Detectives said no one has been arrested but have otherwise remained tight-lipped about the circumstances and progress of their investigation.
One neighbor said she asked officers if she could take her trash out, and she was told “yes” and that it’s not a “violent” investigation. This allowed residents to breathe a sigh of relief.
Police reiterated there was no danger or risk to the public.
Officers appeared to be wrapping up their investigation at the apartment around 4 p.m.
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