Video showed a man rushing inside the home as SWAT rolled up with their armored vehicle and busted the door open. The homeowner said this was a short-term rental but never imagined what was going on.
ByThe video above shows agents with long guns appear as plume smoke is seen as investigators make their way into a home just east of downtown Houston.Multiple people were taken into custody after a surprise FBI raid Wednesday morning just east of downtown Houston.
The raid happened on Harby Street near Sidney Street, and investigators said several potential victims were rescued. Surveillance video showed a man rushing inside as a SWAT team rolled up, their armored vehicle's tactical battering ram busting open the door and breaking the early morning silence. "Not every day do you see a giant truck full of guys in tactical gear running in your house," Austin Kimbrough, who owns the home but was renting it out, said.As agents went in and out of the front door and smashed through windows, members of the FBI hostage rescue team and FBI Houston's SWAT team were escorting people out of the house. According to the FBI, four suspects were arrested, and several potential victims were rescued.
Kimbrough said the home was a short-term rental, as five people had been renting it out since March 31. But, he knows there were more inside. "Looking at the video, there were up to nine people total, and they were just coming and going in and out all hours of the night," he said. "Nothing I thought was suspicious until the FBI was here."
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