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Fitchburg woman and daughter 'terrified' as saw rips down door after getting wrong address
Sentinal and Enterprise ^ | January 31, 2012 | Michael Hartwell

Posted on 01/31/2012 7:07:49 PM PST by 6SJ7

FITCHBURG -- It was a horror movie come to life.

Judy Sanchez woke Thursday to the sound of heavy footsteps in her stairwell, followed by a loud motor. She got to her kitchen in time to see the blade of a chain saw rip through her front door.

"It was so crazy," Judy Sanchez said. "I was terrified."

Jan. 26 was the day of Operation Red Wolf, a multiagency sweep during which 16 people in Fitchburg were arrested on charges related to gang activity, drug trafficking and illegal gun sales after a two-year investigation by federal, state and local law-enforcement officers.

The people sawing through her door were FBI agents, looking for a gang member suspected of trafficking cocaine. But they went to the wrong address.

Sanchez said the ordeal traumatized her and her 3-year-old daughter, Ji'anni, and she is unsatisfied with the agency's response to the error.

About 10 FBI agents came into her apartment at 391 Elm St., that morning, guns drawn and pointed at her. There was no knock, and they didn't shout that they were from the FBI until after the saw was buzzing through her six-panel front door, she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at sentinelandenterprise.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: chainsaw; drug; jackboot; ma
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To: American in Israel

It won’t be c-4 proof. Problem is they will just escalate. Better to put a couple surprises along the way for them so they take themselves out.


41 posted on 01/31/2012 8:28:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Trod Upon

How the hell are you supposed to hear “fbi” over a freaking chain saw gutting your door.


42 posted on 01/31/2012 8:29:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

What would probably actually ensue would be an ugly firefight in which later the Feebs would claim they hollered “Police” before ever starting the saw, and nobody could prove otherwise. And if the occupant of the apartment lived by some miracle, he would soon find himself on death row courtesy the Feds if not the state where it happened.


43 posted on 01/31/2012 8:29:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You don’t get it. The WOD became the justification for SWAT. They said they’d go after gangs and fortified drug houses.

The real deal is creating internal paramilitary teams. State Dept. Publication 5277, Freedom From War.


44 posted on 01/31/2012 8:31:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
wouldn't that be a kicker...
45 posted on 01/31/2012 8:32:48 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: meatloaf

In this case I’d shoot through the walls around the door. Normally not unless I knew where my family was.


46 posted on 01/31/2012 8:33:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: 6SJ7
For some reason if I saw a chainsaw running through my front door I would imagine it would be someone like this guy yelling


"Here's Johnny!!!!",

Leatherface,


Jason,


or Michael Myers!

47 posted on 01/31/2012 8:37:05 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

For best effect, you’d need to guess what was chest and head level and go for that.

I’d also never be without my attack cats, which had been trained (through ample use of tuna fish and sardines) to claw through black Kevlar face masks and cling to faces. Dogs are for the birds.


48 posted on 01/31/2012 8:38:20 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: 6SJ7

I’d be dead because I’d be shooting. A chainsaw!?


49 posted on 01/31/2012 8:39:07 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Sounds like they went to terrorist think tanks. Headed by terrorists.


50 posted on 01/31/2012 8:40:34 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: American in Israel
Note to self, buy a bullet proof, steel reinforced door to teach Nazi’s to knock.

It's illegal in Oklahoma. Coming soon to a fascist State near you...

51 posted on 01/31/2012 8:40:54 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Secret Agent Man; Chode
I think the only way the fbi is going to learn is when they take home a pile of dead agents.

Much like cops who shoot people's barking dog after busting into the wrong house.

52 posted on 01/31/2012 8:43:06 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: kiryandil

As if a crook would care about that law. Those who did care would only be the subject of wrong-door raids.


53 posted on 01/31/2012 8:44:48 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: Secret Agent Man
I think the only way the fbi is going to learn is when they take home a pile of dead agents. When you knock on the wrong house, do not announce yourself, they are acting illegally and deserve to be blown away as the homeowner believes a home invasion is occurring.

Uhhhhh, no. They'd be dead "heroes", and you'd be getting a ride on the Federal Death Penalty Express.

They'd throw the switch in under three years, guaranteed.

Nothing too good for dead "hero" BundesKettenhunde...

54 posted on 01/31/2012 8:50:08 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Secret Agent Man
The real deal is creating internal paramilitary teams. State Dept. Publication 5277, Freedom From War.

Yeah, well - didn't work out so good for the Ogden Blackbelly MallNinjas when 12 of them came up against a single former Airborne trooper...

55 posted on 01/31/2012 9:03:43 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: chris37
So...what if she had emptied her .44mag into the sawer...which I would have done for sure...

Despite the fact that this action would have been entirely justified, she would most likely be dead.

56 posted on 01/31/2012 9:22:57 PM PST by wideminded
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To: Svartalfiar

“Hmm.. If I woke up to a chainsaw coming through my door, there’d probably be lead going back through it.”

Probably? I absolutely guaran-damn-tee there would be!


57 posted on 01/31/2012 11:11:15 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: kiryandil

If a chainsaw were to encounter, say, barbed aire stapled to the inside of the door - well, no, that might be messy ...


58 posted on 01/31/2012 11:27:43 PM PST by patton ("Je pense donc je suis," - My Horse.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I shouldn’t say this, but a shotgun won’t do much against anyone in body armor. A .308 is a better choice.

As a law-abiding citizen, I can’t say I wouldn’t assume someone cutting my door with a chainsaw wasn’t some sort of psychopath who was going to kill me. There’s no reason the cops would target me — especially since I know and work with most of the local cops.

There is nothing worse than being a truly innocent person stuck in the crosshairs of the criminal justice system. Thugs learn how to game the system, but innocent people put up a fight and won’t plea bargain their charges away.


59 posted on 01/31/2012 11:48:45 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: Valpal1

I looked, It wasn’t there. It was added since.


60 posted on 02/01/2012 1:31:32 AM PST by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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