Editor’s Note: This is a developing situation, and this story will be updated as more information becomes available.
A SWAT and Oxford Police Department (OPD) team was seen raiding 16 E. Walnut St., a house named “Mtn Dew.” This raid comes after a separate police raid on a South College Avenue house, May 8.
An employee at a nearby restaurant said SWAT members with large guns surrounded the house a little after 10 a.m. The officers announced they had a warrant and asked anyone inside the house to come outside.
“They were not coming outside is what it seemed like, the boys,” the restaurant employee said. “Nobody was answering the door; nobody would come out.”
Around 11:15 a.m., the SWAT team entered the building. The employee said she had not seen anyone aside from police and SWAT officers exit the building.
Around noon, two officers exited the house carrying multiple brown paper bags, which they transferred into a police vehicle.
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The OPD had police vehicles block the section of Walnut Street from Main Street to South Poplar Street, but they removed the vehicles and allowed traffic to move through the street around noon.
Around 12:10 p.m., officers began searching multiple cars on the property.
Update: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 14
The raid on 16 E. Walnut St. was a continuation of the same investigation that prompted the raid on the South College Avenue house, said Lt. Adam Price of the OPD.
Price said two people were detained during Thursday’s raid; one was brought to the OPD station for questioning. No arrests or charges have been made at this time, however, police seized cocaine, electronics and other paraphernalia at the residence.
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