Officers caught one man, but another bolted out of a rear window, ran across rooftops and crawled through an open window of an occupied rowhouse in the first block of S. Ann St., said city police spokesman Sterling Clifford. But the man could go no farther, and police and members of the SWAT team cordoned off the area.
The commotion woke up Regester Street residents, who saw officers swarming the area and heard a city police helicopter buzzing low overhead.
A woman said she looked out her window and saw a SWAT team lined up on the street. She was struck with fear when, as she hid from the windows, she saw a thin blue beam of light, which she believed was a gun's laser sight, shine briefly into her house.
"I was shaking," she said. "We called the police to try to figure out what was going on."
Hours after the raid began, a standoff with the second suspect a block away ended when he surrendered peacefully to police. No one inside the Ann Street home was hurt or taken hostage, Clifford said.
Residents said the raided Regester Street house was often busy, with visitors day and night, blocking the street with their expensive cars.
One resident said the men in the house often watched pornography on television without bothering to cover their windows. With the houses so close together, the scenes apparently were not hard to miss.
"It used to be so loud," a woman said about the activity at the house.
As plainclothes city police officers and Drug Enforcement Administration agents prepared to leave about 9:30 yesterday morning, several residents thanked them for targeting the house.
Sun reporter Liz F. Kay contributed to this article.
