Locals described the scene as something out of a movie.
“It was kind of like a war zone to tell you the truth,” Morgan McMillan, a resident of the area, told CTV News.
McMillan, who lives on Shakespeare Drive, said he woke up and first saw an ambulance on the street.
“[Then] “My wife told me that police had cordoned off the area,” McMillan said.
A few hours later he came out.
“I saw a whole group of officers with their fully automatic weapons out,” he said.  “So obviously something very serious is happening.”
“They did not even look like officers, they looked like soldiers,” he continued.  “They were not wearing regular uniforms. They looked like soldiers, they even had a large armored vehicle.”
A police officer holds a gun in the Beechwood neighborhood of Waterloo on April 12, 2022. (Submitted)
Police said Tuesday’s arrest was linked to an incident in Kitchener last week.
At around 2.30pm on April 7, police saw a man wanted on two pending warrants in Victoria Street North and Forfar Avenue in Kitchener.
Police said police tried to arrest the man, but he resisted and “caused his vehicle to come into contact with a police officer, a police cruiser and another parked vehicle”.
The man then left the area at high speed.  Police said no prosecution was launched for public security reasons.
The policeman was slightly injured in the incident.
Police said that as a result of the investigation into the incident, the man was arrested around 1:20 a.m. Tuesday in the Keats Way and Shakespeare Drive area of ​​Waterloo.
It faces multiple categories such as:


 Operation while prohibited     Assault with a weapon     Attack in order to resist arrest     Dangerous operation     Failure to stop after an accident 


Residents living in the area say they have never seen anything like what they saw on Tuesday before.
An armored police vehicle appeared in the Shakespeare Drive area of ​​Waterloo on April 12, 2022. (Submitted)
Meezan Pirani said he was walking outside around 1pm when an officer approached him and told him the road was closed.
“He told me, ‘No one is allowed to walk.’  “You have to go back and you are not safe outside,” Pirani said.
People in the area reported that they saw tactical officers with guns surrounding one of the houses.
“The police will not tell the walkers anything, they will just tell them to go back,” Pirani said.  “They closed the area so no one could go in or out, we don’t know anything, so it was really amazing and scary.”