Family Held At Gunpoint After Home is Mistakenly Raided By Police

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SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (WPIX) — It was a classic case of mistaken identity for a Spring Valley family Thursday when federal agents and police raided their home and reportedly held their teenage daughter at gunpoint.

The father, David McKay, said police dragged his wife, brother-in-law and daughter out of bed, separated him from his family and even threatened to shoot their dog, according to a report in The Journal News.

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration had an arrest warrant for a man they believed lived in the Spring Valley family's house, but it turned out he lived a couple houses away.

"You go barging into someone's home with guns and pull them out of their bed, you better make sure you have all your i's ... dotted and your t's crossed," McKay told The Journal News.

The raid was part of drug trafficking investigation that involved over 200 federal and local officers and has so far led to the arrest of 26 people across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, officials said. The DEA believes they are responsible for distributing more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana since 2006.

"We sincerely regret that while attempting to execute an arrest warrant for a member of this drug trafficking organization, the innocent McKay family was inadvertently affected by this enforcement operation," Special Agent in Charge John Gilbride said in a statement issued to PIX 11 News.

The DEA did finally arrest the correct person, who, along with the others arrested, was arraigned in White Plains on Wednesday.

McKay's family, meanwhile, has been traumatized from the incident. His daughter suffered from an asthma attack during the raid and was taken to Nyack Hospital.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The armed assault tactic makes no sense to me. They don't know who in the house may shoot back. The cops know this, so they go in with fingers on the triggers and shoot anything that annoys them.

I recall the Sheriff in Waco didn't understand why the ATF didn't grab Koresh when he went out for one of his routine jogs. A lot of lives would have been saved.

The Boston police once aired on Frontline following them around on their essentially no knock raids. They would show up, yell police, and then immediately breakdown the door and rush in to rescue evidence before it went down the toilet. The lead cop was a red head. He's dead now, work related.

[diogenes ghost]

We should all rejoice that the JBTs have possibly stopped shooting dogs.

Or maybe this bunch was so poorly trained they forgot to.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Detective Griffin, have you been misbehaving again?

[Travis McGee]

So the folks who are collecting evidence and planning to testify in court cannot even find the correct address.

Yep, you can trust them 100%. Sheesh.

[Travis McGee]

The following is a public service announcement.

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You can get a CZ-52 for about $200 at any gun show or at many gun stores. You can also find them by googling around the internet. The ammo can be had for as low as 11 cents a bullet in any quantity you want. Extra mags are from $12 to $20 each.

The milsurp ammo is full metal jacket, firing an 85gr bullet at 1,600fps. These will go through car doors, kevlar helmets, kevlar vests etc like an icepick through butter. OTOH, they will also go through one bad guy and maybe hit a good guy behind him.

However, you can buy hollowpoints ("Wolf Gold" with brass shells) for about $19/50, or half the price of comparable 9mm JHPs. My test "Wolf Gold" JHP ammo expanded to .60 caliber, the same as my test 9mm JHPs.

So for $400, you could buy a CZ-52, 1,500 rounds of assorted ammo, and a few extra mags. OR, you could buy about 2/3s of a "brand name" pistol, and no ammo.

It's just a thought. This is a great bargain. The ammo is cheap and plentiful at all of the internet catalog sites. Don't wait, the libtards will soon slam the door on foreign gun and ammo imports, and the prices will go way up.

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[packrat35]

Wow and no dogs were shot either. They must be slipping.

[eyedigress]

I got a good price for .40 S&W Golden Saber at 16.99 per 25 yesterday.

[packrat35]

Read my tagline. We are becoming a police state and fast.

[MaxMax]

Rules and Noks should change. Every enforcement officer should
evaluate every objective.

But WTF do I know, I may be an unknown objective one day.

[DirtyPigpen]

Nice! Looks just like mine.

Been tempted to get reloading stuff for it, just to have on hand.

[NoGrayZone]

No harm done =).

[Travis McGee]

I can’t see a reason to reload when ammo is so cheap and available. BTW, mine became a lot better looking when I replaced the tacky plastic grips with Hogue hardwood.

[DirtyPigpen]

.303 brit was cheap, so was 762x51, for a while. I used to get 762nato for about $120/1000, now that is only a memory.

I do a lot of casting(the pot’o lead is warming as I type) and was temped to try some molds that are intended for .30 carbine in the tok. I just like to have dies for most, if not all, of the calibers I have....excluding .22rimfire.

Those Hogue grips do look nice. I just used some of the fusion black paint and painted mine. Not as classy as the wood but much better than the redish/brownish color they were.

[Titan Magroyne]

This is crazy. I’m so sick of these no-knock raids over the excuse of so little product it’ll otherwise disappear down the toilet.

Even innocents like me are subject to these mistaken raids. If it ever happens it’ll be because of my idiot neighbor’s houseguests & familial ties. And a cop not doing his homework, of course.

[Travis McGee]

To me, the Hogue grips also feel a lot better in my hand. I'd spring for them. Ugly duckling to swan.

[csvset]

make sure you have all your i's ... dotted and your t's crossed,

Nope, the only thing crossed were the Keystone cops' eyeballs. Dyslexic SOBs.

What was the address? 1444? 1492? 1942?

Just pick one and go for it. Who provided the info? A paid crackhead informant?

[DirtyPigpen]

It does look good.

[The Comedian]

Yes, but they won't be charged.

That's what the badge means: Not liable for otherwise criminal indiscretions.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Cardhu]

Usually it's the purvey of Lefties

But in all these cases it is unfortunately not demogoguery it is the so called right wing, jack boot lickers that justify anything these cowaedly thugs do. usually claiming a few bad apples when the whole barrel is a rotten worm invested mass.

[Cardhu]

invested = infested