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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I was a Marine ( 3 years in RECON ) so what's you point superman. You want to compare Johnsons?
Oh, far be it from us, mere citizens, to second guess our heavily armed para-military police force masters.
We're just too myopic to understand.
Someone else once posted the bottom of that list.
Gardeners were more likely to die on the job than police.
Chivalry is dead.
Judging from your attitude, the public is much safer with you at a computer.........
That damned Ernest T. Bass....playing tricks on Barney like that!!!
I think flea was referring to paid occupations - which, on second thought, after the lawsuit on this one sleeping just might fall on the well-paid list of occupations...
It is excellent that the entire public got involved in these discussions, not just the "experts" like you. It is excellent that you quit finding that you were not up to the public expectations.
"I'll bet it's just about impossible to fall down flat on your face and get a "dislocated shoulder" or "bruised ribs"
just guessing here but i bet you've never cared for any elderly people.....
If you were a Marine recon, you are a certified badass and I respect you sincerely.
My favorite uncle retired a Sgt Major, and was always a hero to me.
Sounds like you're saying, "I was just following orders."
Also sounds like there's no limit to the orders you'd follow.
Shame.
"The officers on the entry team are not at fault".
I guess it was the old folks fault for being at home when the jackbooted thugs decided to terrorize them?
Exactly whose fault do you think it was?
"I prefer to go home every night and not leve my safety up to arm chair QB's who haven't the nerve to do the job others do."
It takes a lot of nerve to beat up old people sleeping in their home, and then brag about the safety and comfort of your own home.
Let me know how it turns out.
Anybody ever wonder why it took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, yet there is a 'war on drugs' without one? It's an unconstitutional war.
Cops beating up old people and shooting people 'by mistake' all because they have been *trained* to think that everyone is out to kill them. Truth be known, the 'police force' is largely a bunch of wannabe tough-guys who only get brave when the power of the state is behind them.
Legalize drugs, let the druggies kill themselves w/ cheap dope and leave everybody else alone! Zoned-out druggies are a lot less dangerous that militarized cops who think everybody else is the enemy.
That's just it. It's nobody's fault. It never is.
Hey...........Not bad for a lawyer........I kinda like you.
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