Province is usually the kind of place where the biggest commotion is a golf-cart crossing or someone winning the community pickleball ladder. It is the city’s only 55-plus enclave, a manicured world behind a guarded gate, famous for the highest HOA dues in town, a resort-style town hall and some of Maricopa’s priciest home sales . Crime there is almost nonexistent. Last year, we reported it had the lowest rate in the entire city .

So, residents did a double-take yesterday afternoon when five police cars reportedly rolled through the neighborhood and officers were spotted detaining a group of teens along Friendly Place, a winding residential street. A photo sent in by a Province reader this morning is said to show officers standing over “young teens on the ground with their hands b

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