INDIANAPOLIS -- On the heels of IMPD's Operation First Step, not everyone in the community is hailing the effort as a success.
The operation was the largest crime sweep of its kind in city history. Dozens were arrested in some of Indy's most dangerous areas. Some 150 federal, state and local officers targeted properties on the city's north, northwest and east sides.
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One of the houses targeted was just a few doors down from the home of Frederick Henning.
"If they are doing something like that for the community, kids need that," Henning said. "They need somebody to rack 'em up."
Bill and Star Fox, however, gave police a lower grade.
"I was just wondering why?" Fox said. "I just wondered why?"
Why did so many police block his street to kick in his neighbor's door – a man Bill and Star had no problems with.
"They stayed over there and took pictures. They had gloves. We thought, well, shoot, they getting ready to bring out some bodies in a minute," Fox said.
The man, Kristopher Moore, was arrested during the sweep, but returned to his house on North Irvington Avenue Monday. As he sat on his porch he told reporters that police found no drugs and only ended up taking a gun he owned.
Police responded calling the man a drug dealer armed with a weapon.
They reported finding a marijuana grow operation in the house.
Police charged Moore with dealing in marijuana, possession of marijuana and maintaining a common nuisance.
