By Dan MorseWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, July 8, 2009
Kelly Craven was reading a children's book to three toddlers in the basement of her Northwest Washington home when a frantic call arrived from a neighbor.
"What's going on outside your house?" the neighbor asked. "There are police running around with guns."
When Craven and her Takoma neighbors learned that a crew was filming a staged police raid, they were not amused. They also have a piece of advice for filmmakers and off-duty police officers: If you're going to act out such a dramatic scene in a residential neighborhood, let people know beforehand.
"I was terrified," Craven, who babysits for children in the neighborhood, said yesterday.
The production crew from Silver Spring-based Sirens Media had hired off-duty Montgomery County officers last week to film a "dramatic reenactment" for a documentary called "Prison Wives." Officials with the company acknowledged yesterday that residents were not properly given a heads-up. News of the reenacted raid was previously reported by WJLA-TV (Channel 7) and the Washington Examiner.
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