Two people were arrested, and a slew of drugs—including cocaine, fentanyl, MDMA (also known as Ecstasy) and marijuana—are off the street after law enforcement officers conducted an early-morning raid aimed at giving the community back to people who reside there.
“They can live in peace, and they can live with their kids in the front yard,” Green Bay Police Commander Kevin Warych said in a recent WBAY.com report.
The March 29 pre-dawn drug bust that took place at 1520 Main St. is being touted as the culmination of a 16-month investigation involving local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
“Yesterday was an example of a multi-agency effort,” Warych told WBAY. “We had a lot of members from this agency, members from other agencies working together to remove that from the neighborhood so that people don’t have to deal with that.”
Officers from the Brown County Drug Task Force; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) all took part in the raid. The investigation is ongoing.
“It doesn’t matter if I’m wearing a blue uniform or a brown uniform or wearing a suit,” Warych said. “We all have a common goal; and how we get to a common goal is by working together; training together and really just knowing each other by name; knowing each other’s hopes, dreams and fears; because then if you know them it’s easier to work with.”
While the Green Bay police aren’t allowed to talk about details of the investigation, viewer video showed at least eight officers in tactical gear with guns drawn entering the raided building through a side door, the WBAY report said.
Warych noted that he hopes the whole episode sends a message to the entire community.
“There’s a lot of satisfaction, personally, that you’re making a difference in your community, that you’re making a difference in a neighbor’s life, that they don’t have to deal with this anymore and as a neighborhood as a whole,” he said in the report.
