| By Big Radio News Staff |

A half dozen police cruisers are surrounding a home atop Janesville’s Courthouse Hill as of mid-evening Tuesday.

A Big Radio News reporter watched police going in and out of the front door of a two story brick house and pacing around the property at 521 East Court Street shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday night.

Officers at the scene declined comment on the situation and deferred to their commanding officer. Big Radio was not immediately able to reach that officer on Tuesday evening.

Police at the scene had squad vehicles with their flashing lights on parked in the front and side yards at the house, which appears to be a rental property licensed to Truman Properties, according to tax records.

At shortly before 7 p.m. police had not blocked off streets or cordoned off the property. About a dozen officers were on scene.

One officer was handing a person a bag of belongings, but the person said they didn’t live at the apartment and they weren’t sure why police had swarmed the place.

As of 7:15, police had issued no public alerts about the situation, and a supervisor at Janesville’s central police station could not be reached for further details.