Heavily armed Peel police officers ordered seven people out of a house on Bartley Bull Parkway Monday afternoon (April 15) and then arrested them as they investigated a report that a passerby had seen a gun, police report.

All seven were released unconditionally after a thorough search of the house and the residents did not turn up any firearms, police said.

The drama began in the Peel Village subdivision at about 1 p.m. when someone called to police to say they had heard a woman scream, and when they went to knock on the door they saw what they thought was a gun through a window of the house.

Police converged on the street and surrounded the house, closing Bartley Bull between Tullamore Road and Harper Road.