Posted on 08/07/2008 6:39:32 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
Prince George's County police announced yesterday that they have arrested a deliveryman and another man who they say are involved in a scheme to smuggle marijuana by shipping packages addressed to unsuspecting recipients, including a delivery last week to the wife of the mayor of Berwyn Heights.
The county Sheriff's Office SWAT team and narcotics officers raided the home of Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, after intercepting a package addressed to her that was filled with 32 pounds of marijuana. During the raid, officers broke down Calvo's door and fatally shot the family's two black Labrador retrievers.
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Police Chief Melvin C. High would not rule out that Calvo and Tomsic had some involvement in the delivery. Asked whether police had cleared them, he said: "From all the indications at the moment, they had an unlikely involvement, but we don't want to draw that definite conclusion at the moment." He later said, "Most likely, they were innocent victims."
Neither he nor Sheriff Michael A. Jackson apologized for the raid, which they said was conducted responsibly, given what deputies and officers knew at the time.
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Jackson said yesterday that his team was justified in entering the home as forcefully as it did because Calvo's mother-in-law screamed when she saw the officers approaching the house. The noise, he said, could have alerted any armed occupants of the home or allowed time for destruction of any evidence.
He also defended the shooting of the dogs. He said his deputies were "engaged" by the dogs, by one as they entered the house and by the other as they made their way through it. Neither dog bit a deputy, he said.
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I used to think I had a sick sense of humor... but this is just wrong.
Have you ever owned dogs?
I had two whippets as a kid. If some worthless cops came in and killed them I wouldn't be "delighted" if they just bought me two more in their place. I actually liked the dogs I had.
I would wager most people feel the way I do.
The "tactics" are jacked-up and have no place in what is supposedly a "free" country. And people who defend the use of these "tactics" are jacked-up bootlicks.
Good God!
My exact thoughts.
Most people do feel the way you do. That’s because unlike this piece of work, most people aren’t statist automaton twits.
Oh yeah.... s/he IS that stupid.
Great work - NOT!!!
Yes but two things. First the cops who got convicted and sentenced were white and the victim black and the Shirleyville (formerly known as Atlanta) administration black. Their (black) higher ups who organized the whole thing and whose ultimate responsiblility it was didn't catch any grief about it. And second, they murdered the woman, but their convictions weren't for murder, but for considerably lesser charges. So they really weren't convicted in the interest of justice, but of racial appeasment to ensue that the current mayor didn't lose popularity with her power base.
And a third thing that I just remembered. The usual jackboot lickers on FR were making the usual excuses for these JBTs when that incident first happened. I'm sure if anyone cared enough to dig back they'd find some of the same copsucker apologists making the same excuses then as now.
The same group of government/police worshipers who got lost and ended up here instead of DU always do. There isn't a police excess that they can't in their - Sieg Heil (crap where did that come from)- minds excuse away. They should have been born in Germany in the 20's for their personalities to fully flower.
“...given what deputies and officers knew at the time.”
I’ve never heard of stupidity used as an actual justification before.
Supposedly these guys (from the county Sheriff's office) had no idea he was a mayor of a town.The cops are either very dishonest or very incompetent or very bothCops can't be trusted anyway. Very territorial animals.
I saw the confiscated marijuana in a video on the news. It wasn't flaked leaves, like a jar of oregano, but rather entire dried plants at least 3 feet tall, with long leaves and woody stems, wrapped in heavy plastic.
Is "common sense" too much to ask for?
Leave it to the regulatory zealots to disreagard that as being of any particular consequence.
Yeah! If they had been pink labs, this would not have happened! Where are Al and Jesse?
This makes it look more like a setup. Who would ship mj like this?
When the Mayor and his wife stood up for a press conference yesterday to ask for an investigation, the wife broke down in sobs and couldn't speak. It did not look fake to me. She appeared horribly traumatized. People go into a grief process when they have to euthanize a beloved pet. But to see them murdered, and also to be tied up and have to lie on the floor in the dogs' blood for over an hour in what you thought was a free country, where a person is innocent until proven guilty -- you're looking at a huge case of PTSD, at a minimum.
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