Miami SWAT swarms area as police say they’re serving warrants to ‘violent criminals’

David Goodhue

September 5, 2024 at 11:24 a.m.

Special response officers swarmed a house in a northern Miami neighborhood Thursday morning.

Police said in an email to the Miami Herald that SWAT officers were serving warrants on a house in the the 7000 block of Northwest Third Avenue, and that the people they are after are “violent criminals.”

Officer Michael Vega, a spokesman for the department, said he could not release any other details.

An aerial shot from a WSVN news helicopter showed eight people sitting on sidewalk with their hands restrained behind their backs.

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.

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