[steveegg]

Terry Wesner said “a couple of shotguns and a rifle” were removed from his home by SWAT Team members after he consented to a search, though officers did not tell him they removed the firearms after they completed their search....

Oshkosh Police Capt. Jay Puestohl said officers “don’t go into houses without consent or a warrant.” He acknowledged consent to search does “not necessarily” mean officers have consent to remove property.

There's a few things wrong here:

• By the Oshkosh Police Deptartment's own admission, consent to search does not automatically confer consent to remove property.
• Considering there was but one entrance and one exit wound from one shot, there was absolutely, positively NO justification for the seizure of the shotguns.
• Lack of notification of the seizure after a "consent search" ("Consent, or we'll have Miffy here tear off your left arm and Billy here shoot off your right arm.") is theft, plain and simple.

[spunkets]

"* Lack of notification of the seizure after a "consent search" ("Consent, or we'll have Miffy here tear off your left arm and Billy here shoot off your right arm.") is theft, plain and simple."

That's correct.

"# consent to search does not automatically confer consent to remove property."

It does if they consider it evidence.

Looks like a Barney Fife dept, but then what do you expect from a corrupt local gov. I couldn't help notice the local politicians in trouble written up on the same page as this incident.