Posted on 04/06/2023 5:10:28 PM PDT by bitt
A Delta Air Lines pilot was sleeping in the targeted room where the botched training exercise took place
The FBI and other federal agents burst into the wrong Boston hotel room Tuesday night during a training exercise, startling the guest inside who had no idea what was going on as he was handcuffed.
The incident occurred on the 15th floor of the Revere Hotel as agents were conducting a mock investigation. FBI agents were assisting the U.S. Department of Defense in a training exercise inside the hotel to simulate a situation that DOD personnel might encounter in a deployed environment.
"Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player," the FBI said in a statement.
The agents targeted room 1505, where a Delta Air Lines pilot was sleeping inside and opened the door, WBZ-TV reported.
When agents went in, they handcuffed the man, who is in his 30s, before interrogating him and putting him in the shower, the news report said.
They eventually realized the mistake and apologized.
"First and foremost, we’d like to extend our deepest apologies to the individual who was affected by the training exercise," Lt. Col. Mike Burns of the United States Special Operations Command told Fox News Digital in a statement. "The training team, unfortunately, entered the wrong room and detained an individual unaffiliated with the exercise."
Hotel security was alerted to the incident and called the Boston Police Department.
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They put him IN A SHOWER? SOU DS LIKE THEY TRIED A MODIFIED WATERBOARDING.
My God. Protect us.
It shouldn’t, since when does the FBI question American Citizens like the military does in wartime?
They’re in an occupied hotel, training, and I assume they’re all dressed up like a military commando team, breaking into occupied rooms? This stuff is really hard to believe.
I’m an airline pilot on layover.....Sure you are, shut up flyboy or I’ll smoke ya...
This will make a nice training video. Very realistic.
The pilot will never forget that layover.
The mistake caused the pilot’s crew rest to be interrupted. Now the airline has to find a replacement pilot among other things.
Sounds like many an armed swat raid gone wrong. I have been preaching that lesson for decades. Swat raids should be verboten.
They screwed up a raid and the real perp got away. They couldn't hide it so they called it a "training exercise".
Good thing he didn’t have a dog with him.....
The more you practice handcuffing and interrogating the wrong person, the better you get at it.
At least they didn’t shoot his dog. Oh wait, the article didn’t say anything about a dog so maybe they did shoot it, if he had one.
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