POLICE have arrested two men on suspicion of aggrevated burglary and another for suspected drug offences after a dramatic stand-off in a residential street.
Officers were called to a house in Duke Road, Barkingside, at about 10am today (Saturday) after a report of a disturbance in the street.
Duke Road and Crown Road were both cordoned off.
Neighbours in the area were unable to return to their homes and a police helicopter was seen in the sky scanning the streets below.
The men arrested are understood to be in their late teens to early 20s.
They were being questioned at an east London police station.
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