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Elderly Couple Hospitalized After Cops Raid Wrong House
Fox News ^ | March 23, 2006 | AP staff

Posted on 03/23/2006 10:59:34 AM PST by seacapn

HORN LAKE, Miss. — An unidentified elderly Horn Lake couple were hospitalized Thursday after police burst into their home thinking it housed a methamphetamine laboratory.

The incident occurred Wednesday about 4 a.m., said police Capt. Shannon Beshears. Beshears said it was the right address but the wrong house.

Beshears said a heavily armed Tactical Apprehension Containment Team stormed the house.

"We had good information from a reliable source that had been backed up by a purchase of narcotics linked to the address. However, when we arrived at the designated address, there were two houses on the lot. We hit the larger of the two houses.

"It was the wrong house," Beshears said. "The house was totally dark and the TACT members went through to the bedroom looking for the suspects."

A man and a woman — both in their 80s — were injured as TACT team members secured the house although no drugs were found. There were children in the house also, but they were not awakened, Beshears said.

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To: Mulder; MikeWUSAF
"For extra fun, you could dress up in all black like a ninja, and spew profanities at granny while slamming her to the ground."

Lord! I 'bout lost a whole mouthfull of SunDrop readin' that one!

121 posted on 03/23/2006 12:08:53 PM PST by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

That's OK. The message got to those to whom it applied, i.e, those who responded.


122 posted on 03/23/2006 12:10:20 PM PST by verity (The MSM is comprised of useless eaters)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Now you've scared me.


123 posted on 03/23/2006 12:11:21 PM PST by One Proud Dad
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To: seacapn

If you do no wrong, you have nothing to fear.
It's for The Children.


124 posted on 03/23/2006 12:11:39 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: verity

Well yes, your bullshat got called as bullshat.


125 posted on 03/23/2006 12:11:47 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: WKB
I see the FR search engine is still a joke

Doubly apropos.

126 posted on 03/23/2006 12:12:04 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Diplomacy is what you do after you kick the enemy's ass and define their lives afterward)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

BTW, we live in a Republic not a democracy.


127 posted on 03/23/2006 12:12:13 PM PST by One Proud Dad
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To: One Proud Dad

Moderator nuked your comment. You are not the police here, they are.


128 posted on 03/23/2006 12:12:20 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: One Proud Dad

The suspect you were apprehending was what? A murder? Serial killer? Terrorist? A drug dealer that would have no turf to protect if not for the war on drugs and in all probability wouldn't be a drug dealer if not for the WOsomeD.


129 posted on 03/23/2006 12:12:44 PM PST by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: One Proud Dad

I know all about how entrys are done now please tell me what you would do if you were the one being entered?


130 posted on 03/23/2006 12:12:55 PM PST by vrwc0915
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To: One Proud Dad
The problem here is simple. They had a warrant.

There were TWO houses and they failed to find out which one was the one to hit.

That should have been clarified or the raid called off/postponed until they knew which one it was.

There is no call for "flip a coin' cop work in this case.

They roughed up the wrong people, likely tipped off their target, and compromised the informant (if the target has squat for brains) as well.

Real friggin' genius, and frankly inexcusable.

This foulup was preventable. Someone did not do their homework.

I am no fan of dynamic entry because a little slop in the paperwork and someone busts down my door, I will shoot first and ask questions later, assuming that anyone breaking into my house does so with malicious intent.

Then what?

131 posted on 03/23/2006 12:12:59 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: One Proud Dad

We are a representative (democratic) republic. If enough popular votes can be had to change things, change they will.


132 posted on 03/23/2006 12:13:54 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: One Proud Dad
"Then knee jerkers like you scream when some guy runs when you try and arrest him in town and either causes a high speed pusuit ( much more dangerous and unpredictable by ststistic and fact ) or takes hostages when he gets home or runs into your house or business."

I've never screamed about mopes who ran. That isn't the police's fault. Not exercising judgement and throwing granny to the ground is the officer's fault. I wonder he put a boot to granny's head.

Sorry, dude. I'm not buying it. There's no need for the ninja gear. There's no need for masks in small towns and there's no need (not even a tactical one) for kevlar helmets. Too many of your brethren (and I know quite a few) are rambo-wannabes in search of an enemy. Police forces need to be SURE of an address before they try to make an arrest and dynamic-entries should be of the last resort.

I'm military too and I keep a gun by my bed. If the police burst into my apartment in the middle of the night screaming, I'd probably be dead because I'd be reaching for my weapon.

133 posted on 03/23/2006 12:14:15 PM PST by jjm2111 (http://www.purveryors-of-truth.blogspot.com)
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To: seacapn

Just so everyone here knows where this is. Horn Lake is about 3 miles from Memphis.


134 posted on 03/23/2006 12:14:29 PM PST by packrat35 (The America hating bastards at the NYT must spend their entire life with their heads in the toilet)
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To: seacapn
They were probably a couple of old hippies and deserved it anyway. The cops should have shot them to teach the old potheads a lesson.

</sarcasm>

135 posted on 03/23/2006 12:14:41 PM PST by Redcloak (WARNING: This post may be a violation of Federal law.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You protest excessively. lol
136 posted on 03/23/2006 12:14:58 PM PST by verity (The MSM is comprised of useless eaters)
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To: Smokin' Joe

"Don't blame us, we're only the dumb machine that by the way tells the one who pushes the button what to do."


137 posted on 03/23/2006 12:15:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: verity

Mods have repeatedly backed me up, lol.


138 posted on 03/23/2006 12:15:58 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: freedumb2003

ouch!
That's like being shot with your own gun by your mother.


139 posted on 03/23/2006 12:16:25 PM PST by WKB (Take care not to make intellect our god; Albert Einstein)
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To: One Proud Dad
Well fellow Marine, I have no need to compare anythign to you. I am not insecure about myself

What I would like is for you to tell me what you would do if the entry team got your house on mistake?

140 posted on 03/23/2006 12:16:38 PM PST by vrwc0915
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