Just arresting a suspect like that would be work for regular police. I think there are SWAT raids that are not necessary but are done anyway as an excuse to increase funding for SWAT teams. If the suspect is innocent but is killed shooting back, thinking he is being attacked by criminals, so much the better. The person killed will not be a witnesses. The news media will just report that a "suspected drug ring-leader" was killed in a shoot-out with police. The so-called civil libertarians are mostly concerned with hardened criminals and terrorists, so there generally is not much of an uproar when an ordinary citizen is the victim of a police death squad. Most liberals are eager for the day when death squads are used for things in addition to bogus drug raids - wait till they ban guns, cigarettes, sugar, fur coats, incadescent light bulbs, etc. Obama's domestic army will be very busy.
Even David Koresh of branch davidian Waco fame was a candidate for this “arrest away from home” techinque. He was widely seen in town on a regular basis. He used to always eat at the Chelsea Street pub.
Also,, a few years before the raid, he was arrested on a homicide warrant. (found not guikty at trial)
How did they get him? Two McClennan county Sheriff deputies in suits walked up and knocked on the door with a warrant.
And you are correct friend, a newsmaking splashy raid is something that is good for funding.