Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not some conspiracy theory nut, but there were some things going down in my neighborhood in Davenport before I left. Since then, I haven't been able to get any good answers from anyone as to what happened.
Not long before I left there was what I thought was an arrest in my old neighborhood at the top of the hill. My neighborhood was no stranger to flashing lights and gun-drawn arrests but these were different. Normally, squad cars would fill the street with flashing lights and uniformed officers, whether packing handguns or shotguns.
I don't remember what night of the week it was, but it was a weekday. I was up late, per usual, sitting at my desk writing. Down the block a bit, I heard a commotion and went outside and stood in my front lawn.
At some random house — one of the few that didn't get the cops banging on their doors — about eight men were standing in the front yard. They weren't wearing any kind of uniforms or insignia other than blue jeans and black T-shirts. These weren't the normal undercover or vice cops seen around the city.
The most alarming thing about these guys is that they were all wearing blue rubber gloves and dust masks like these.
It's like the Swine Flu had suddenly become some black ops thing and these guys were the ones cleaning up. I saw them take someone into custody.
Whoever was inside the white suit they put him in sure was going calmly because everyone walked out real quiet like, got into a black van and left heading north.
Maybe this doesn't mean anything at all, but when I checked, something felt wrong. Any contacts I had at any law enforcement agency in the QC were of absolutely no help. Even the ones that would give me nuggets of info for stories didn't even so much as call me back.
No public records showed anyone being held at any of the jails listing that address. No police agency showed an arrest at that house in the recent past.
It could all be nothing for all I know.
