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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"There's been a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon"
As even OPD pointed out someone, if not someones, in Whalen's employ likely effed up good when the property proved to be dual. And choosing the larger one? Why wouldn't it make sense that a drug lab, with its toxic chemicals, would be kept in the smaller of two structures with the dwelling being in the larger one?
Interesting. Another anonymous name caller. What exactly were you arrested for that wasn't you fault ( just a little weed ) or how fast wewre you going on your last ticket?
You get to hide your risk that way. That may be smart poker but it's giving the public the mushroom treatment.
I don't want to make a cop's life harder, but I also sleep with access to a gun.
An erroneous dynamic entry in my house will lead to deadly consequences for either a cop or myself.
Seizing contraband is not worth the risk of hurting a citizen or a cop.
The fewer dynamic entries, the fewer errors that are introduced in the process. We are asking cops to conduct very dangerous business without anyone getting hurt, and that's not fair to anyone involved.
There was way too much assumin' goin' on. Sounds like a Barney Fife type of police force.
Like I said one lazy or incompetent officer did not do his/her homework. That one is at fault and the Chief is a buffoon for categorically defending that person(s).
No, that was the job of an earkier body, the police: to maintain the public peace.
The change to enforcing was announced by Chicago mayor Richard Daley in the 60s. "The police are not there to create disorder, they are there to maintain disorder"
"Hey we made a mistake but we made it right."
We agree 99% of the time. There are few posters whose comments I always look forward to read, and you are one of them.
LOL, Thats why people like you want such jobs. The little man syndrome.
I.e. "We made the mistake properly."
He should just get a Fat Boy harly. Or two harlies.
I am too large a man to suffer Napolean syndrome.
I had a misguided belief as a young man that after I left the Marine Corps public service was a good and noble thing. I was wrong. It is a just job that makes nobody happy especially the one doing the job.
Alcoholism, suicide, and domestic violence are higher by percentage among police officers than John Q. Public. ever think why? They deal with your trash and problems all day and their own problems have to be left at home ( in a perfect world ).
Nothin more disgusting than answering a domestic call between two drunks who get into it about every 4th day or so and have to listen to them whine about you not doing your job. So on one occasion you actually take one to jail because there is evidence that one actually hit the other and the one you didn't take jumps on your back to "save" the other from going to jail after demanding you do something. Then in 3-4 days after teh one bonds out ( paid by teh other one ) you are called again for the same sh_t.
You have no idea about frustration my friend.
Well they sure taught these druggies a lesson...
Oh, wait!
Really, why don't they just arrest these people in the daylight or something? This is ridiculous.
Motorcylces are suicide machines. I am sorry if I gave the idea that I am a jack-booted thug, bully, or thrill seeker, quite the opposite, I am a dreamer who is disillusioned.
My only hobbies are watching all of my kids activities and the occasional hunting trip.
That is of course if you do not count my daily inventory of my cache of weapons I store under the floor of the house in preparation for the collaspe of society.
Too many small towns and counties are hiring jackbooted thugs for cops.
They build oversized police departments because they want
to collect traffic fines, then the departments get out of hand, due to incompetence.
This is not a case of hostages being held. It is a purported dope lab. Big deal.
Let your big time swat team surround the house and wait for daylight. Call the house on the phone and see what happens.
There are way too many cases of the cops busting down the wrong door.
Well, we see the blame all being on the guy who screwed up the location.
No blame at all being put on the "brave" officers in their black ski masks, bullet proof vests carrying submachineguns and beating up 80 year old people for no reason at all, other than they could and it is "proper" police procedure.
Those guys have a free will and supposedly have common sense, just like the rest of us. The rest of us are held accountable for our actions.
What would happen to you or me if we broke into the home of an 80 year old couple in the middle of the night, pointed guns at them and beat them up? Shouldn't the same thing happen to the police who were involved in this farce?
No according to at least one person on the tread. Heroes to him always. They are cops and can do no wrong.
Well, they also screwed up when they failed to check the smaller building (I seen no mention of meth equipment being later found). Or perhaps the "reliable information" wasn't quite so, and it wasn't a matter of "correct address, but wrong building"
Too funny!!!
I've never been arrested, rarely drive more that 5 over. So how many things have you done under cover of the law that would have gotten me arrested if I did them?
Me thinks you protest too much, I really couldn't care less about you and your fellow officers, I treat them with respect like anyone else until such time that they prove they don't deserve respect. Hopefully, you were a good officer, but for you to be defending these actions doesn't sit well with me. I agree, one person is responsible for the inaccurate address info, but that does not in any way mean that the officer(s) who manhandled these elderly people are free from responsibility.
Myself, I would be dead because the first person thru the my door would be shot. I have a CCW so I'm not a criminal and I resent the attitude of us vs. them that is all too prevelant in todays police forces.
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