We finally found out what happened on our street. I've seen the gang and have been cutting through the parking lot at work to avoid them. Here is a small portion of the newspaper article about it.

WORCESTER— The Brooks Street area has been watched closely for the past month since a group of people representing themselves as a gang began causing problems in the vicinity, police said.

One result of the increased police presence was the arrest of a group of people early Friday morning and the recovery of several knives and a chain. The chain had a lock attached to an end link.

Police Detective Captain Edward J. McGinn Jr., head of the detective bureau, believes police stopped a fight that was about to occur between the so-called gang and another group.

“They appeared to be ready to fight another group,” Capt. McGinn said, noting some of them were armed with weapons. “I’m convinced we stopped a serious assault or worse.”

The neighborhood, he said, “was a quiet area until this.”