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SWAT Team Busts Through Door Searching for Drugs, No Arrests Made
KCRG ^ | Aug 12, 2010 | Jeff Raasch

Posted on 08/20/2011 8:32:26 AM PDT by Immerito

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Police in SWAT gear busted through a door and searched a Cedar Rapids home for drugs Thursday morning, but came up empty.

At least 12 officers surprised the tenants at 1135 33rdSt. NE when they arrived around 7 a.m. with a narcotics search warrant. Sgt. Cristy Hamblin, a police spokeswoman, later confirmed that nothing was seized from the house.

No one was taken to jail, but the tenants of the house, Justin Davis, 28, and his girlfriend, Erica Lewis, 26, were charged with disorderly house and signed a promise to appear in court, police said. No one was injured during the raid.

Davis said his 5-year-old daughter was in her room when officers busted a hole in the front door. He said he came to the door when he heard a K-9 unit dog barking, and was pulled outside, where he was told to lie face down in his front yard. He said the officers had him at gunpoint.

Davis was visibly upset after police left and mentioned moving out of the area.

“What do you think my neighbors think about me now?” Davis said. “My character has been assassinated, and I’m really upset about that.”

Davis said he and Lewis were handcuffed while officers searched. They were told police had information that there was drug activity at their house.

Hamblin said search warrants are issued only after a judge reviews the evidence collected and signs the warrant. In general, police investigate tips about drug activity by interviewing neighbors, looking through trash and using a drug-sniffing dog, Hamblin said.

“We don’t take just one person’s word, under normal circumstances,” Hamblin said.

Davis said he is on probation and it would be stupid for him to be involved with drugs.

“They should have made sure they had concrete evidence before they knock in someone’s door,” Davis said.

Disorderly house is described as a building or room where someone “resorted to for” illegal activity involving drugs, alcohol, gambling or prostitution, according to a city ordinance.


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KEYWORDS: cedarrapids; iowa; swat
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1 posted on 08/20/2011 8:32:35 AM PDT by Immerito
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To: Immerito

same topic, same source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2766540/posts


2 posted on 08/20/2011 8:34:55 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Two different, but similar, scenarios.

The homeowners are different as are the addresses.


3 posted on 08/20/2011 8:40:47 AM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Immerito
“They should have made sure they had concrete evidence before they knock in someone’s door,” Davis said

That would make too much sense and would save the taxpayers a few bucks that would lost to the resulting lawsuits.


4 posted on 08/20/2011 8:42:48 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Keith in Iowa

So to put this all into prospective...Cedar Rapids is a town of 120k folks...which probably has around 5k citizens who utilize some type of drug illegally...on a weekly basis (my humble figures). The cops in this case got some information from some snitch or associate of this guy...figuring they had a great open-and-shut bust. They bring Sparky the drug-sniffing dog along with them....and end up with nothing.

On the positive side...the SWAT team marks up another episode and will go back to ask the city council to continue their budget cost...even though most folks in town likely question the necessity of a SWAT team.

As for the team itself....they can be happy that they didn’t shoot the family dog, or that someone inside didn’t misinterpret things and shoot half of the SWAT team as they busted down the door. Just another day in America.


5 posted on 08/20/2011 8:42:57 AM PDT by pepsionice
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6 posted on 08/20/2011 8:46:43 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Immerito

LOL...if a “disorderly house” is a criminal offense, I’m going up the river for a long time.


7 posted on 08/20/2011 8:47:38 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Immerito

In my opinion, when the cops come up empty in a cluster snafu like this, they should face the same charges I and my buddies would face if we invaded the house. Sort of a loser-pays system but I expect cops would be even more prone to plant evidence.


8 posted on 08/20/2011 8:48:49 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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What? They couldn’t find a cat to stomp to death or a dog to shoot in front of the family? They were probably really hoping to prone out the wheelchair-bound, alzheimer’s grandparent. Animals.


9 posted on 08/20/2011 8:51:01 AM PDT by KingLudd
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the tenants of the house, Justin Davis, 28, and his girlfriend, Erica Lewis, 26, were charged with disorderly house

wtf is that?

you can get charged for not picking up your room?

10 posted on 08/20/2011 9:03:23 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Immerito

SWAT busts down wrong door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY82seEBw5w


11 posted on 08/20/2011 9:08:30 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: sten
wtf is that?

It's in the last line of the article.

Disorderly house is described as a building or room where someone “resorted to for” illegal activity involving drugs, alcohol, gambling or prostitution, according to a city ordinance.

12 posted on 08/20/2011 9:14:04 AM PDT by cayuga (The next Crusade will be a war of annihilation.)
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“....illegal activity involving drugs, alcohol, gambling or prostitution, according to a city ordinance.”

Clearly not an arrestable offense, since they had a dozen cops there.

So, what were these people doing, sitting around drinking beer and playing poker for money? Or did they find like a joint or something and the cops didn’t want to look like dopes using a SWAT team to make such a minor arrest.

But, they look kind of foolish anyway. I’m glad no one was harmed in this exercise of undue police power.


13 posted on 08/20/2011 9:40:02 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: cayuga
A safe room for tornadoes?
14 posted on 08/20/2011 9:40:02 AM PDT by Deaf Smith
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Disorderly house is described as a building or room where someone “resorted to for” illegal activity involving drugs, alcohol, gambling or prostitution, according to a city ordinance.

Bull$hit! Anyone living in a home with a closet could be charged with this. Swat team CYA charges.
15 posted on 08/20/2011 9:41:50 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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i remember my swat encounter, back in 1987 (I've always been a trendsetter). talking about it was like trying to tell people you were abducted by aliens.

Now it's routine. There might as well be SWAT Encounters website or reality tv show.

16 posted on 08/20/2011 9:42:09 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: sten

It means if they hadn’t charged them with something they would have to pay to put the door back up/

This way the guy has to fix his own door.

What should happen is the Judge who issued the Warrant should be charged with malfeasance.


17 posted on 08/20/2011 9:54:06 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: KingLudd

“What? They couldn’t find a cat to stomp to death or a dog to shoot in front of the family? “

Progress!!!!


18 posted on 08/20/2011 10:06:52 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Joe 6-pack

I have seven, I’ll repeat, SEVEN children and I was thinking exactly the same thing.


19 posted on 08/20/2011 10:06:52 AM PDT by politicalmerc (The whole earth may move, but God's throne is never shaken. I think I'll stand by Him..)
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To: cayuga

““resorted to for””

There must be some new rules to the English language because I don’t understand what the hell that means.


20 posted on 08/20/2011 10:10:23 AM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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