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 am HiTech RedNeck's evil twin.
Well, RedNeck is definately with me...
Probably back as far as Prohibition when cops with revolvers were no match for the gangs with their Thompsons, so they got Thompsons too. That was understandable. But now they're using overwhelming force for just common individual criminals. Heck tanks are ok I guess as long as some guy has some "illegal" gun, drug, or whatever. So is burning down a compound full of women and children. And this old "oops, we got the wrong house" thing is getting kind of old too. Happens way to often. I'm beginning to wonder if the odds are more in favor of me having a burglar or a SWAT team with the wrong address invade my premises, and frankly I hope it's the burglar because I'd have a better chance of coming out alive.
Thanks!
Was this designed, or did it evolve.
I'd say at first it evolved (the prohibition example) but now it's more by design then necessity.
LMAO!
Never thought of shouting to him with a bullhorn? He's shooting beebees and nobody notices that there aren't any bullets?
I guess they missed the part where no shots were heard!
But who cares about that. The main thing is whether or not it was one of those "assault" pellet guns. You know, the kind that holds more then ten BB's.
I could just see myself back when I was 8 years old or so toting around my pellet gun hunting birds and suddenly finding myself surrounded by a SWAT team.
The guy who was shooting pigeons was on the news tonight, completely baffled as to what happened.
Seems the police saw him get out of his car (they even had to move their car so he could park) and he carried the air rifle in plain view and THEY SAID NOTHING TO HIM.
A little while later all hell broke lose. SWAT teams all over the place.
Whatever happened to common sense?
First ever Smoky Backroom Ping.
They're not going to chance going up against a guy with a pellet gun.
Better call in SWAT!
Hahaha. Good lord.
"TACT!" Yeah, we be bad, uh huh, we be bad!
Sadistic elderly abusing hero* ping.
" I am just amazed how many here hate police"
"need to stay in good graces to avoid that next ticket".
Wow, it took you 144 posts to whip out the "cop hater" mantra. You little tough guys usually default to that as soon as someone is not kiss'n your backside.
Oh, and by the way, we are not worried about the next ticket, we are worried about having all our teeth the next time we have to submit to your 'command presence'. I don't hate cops, I just give them the same distance I would as say, a rabid dog.
If the police have in their possession a facially-valid warrant which properly identifies the address they're raiding and allow for the type of raid in question, and if they have no reason to believe the warrant to be illegitimate, then the police conducting the raid should not be at fault if the warrant was issued for the wrong address.
On the other hand, if a government agent conducts a raid without personally confirming that a warrant exists that allows the specific type of raid at the specific address, and it later turns out that the raid as conducted was not authorized by a warrant, that agent should be jointly and severally accountable for conducting the wrongful raid. If anyone is killed in the raid, the agent should be prosecuted for murder.
If someone is unwilling to accept the responsibility of checking warrants personally, that person should not be involved in any government raids.
Yeah, no big deal...unless you are the victim!
I'm old enough to remember when only South America sent military squads into people's homes. It's revolting that we've become what we used to despise.
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