Meanwhile, no record of actual POLICE WORK being done here. They took the word of a "reliable informant." No stakeout of the residence was done. No unmarked car parked near this mobile home to see if the suspect was regularly in or out. Just a "reliable informant."
This isn't too far from where I live. I'm starting to get nervous about our militarized police forces in the Tampa Bay area. There was an article posted to FR recently that discussed Florida Highway Patrol's "vehicle inspection checkpoints" in and out of Hillsborough county. Might need to consider getting out of Florida for real.
This Nocco is a complete arrogant power-mad ass. Because a suspect they are after may be armed and dangerous gives carte blanche forced entry into any property? What about warrants? I understand there are such things as no-knock warrants, but there still has to be a presigned piece of paper (Nocco, that's a f@cking warrant in case you don't know). The Starks should get a lawyer. If I got on the jury, they'd win.
The cops won't like it. And maybe the guy fighting back will be sort of a leftist loon. But some of us are going to see the police running around, scared of their own shadow and we're gonna cheer. They've got it coming, because they don't police themselves. Jack-booted thugs think they can do anything they like.
Every overweight, moronic, superannuated cop these days fancies himself a Navy SEAL, and wants to get dressed up in his gear and break down doors.
This particular form of egregious childishness is extremely dangerous and has to be stopped.
Even if the felon had been there, it’s no excuse for breaking down doors and terrorizing the elderly.
As a society, we should expect that sort of behavior only from terrorists.
Could they have tried, like, knocking on the door?
Why don’t they do an old fashioned stakeout anymore? Follow the guy around and catch him when they know he’s there. Let’s just kick in the damn door of some relative and hope he’s there... Great police work.
I bet a SWAT team wasn’t needed when they finally arrested him. SWAT teams are a bigger threat to society than criminals.
No knock warrants are evil.
What ever happened to doing a little detective work and picking up the guy going or coming? Breaking down a door and rushing in is just asking for trouble.
if you go look or the REZKO family that may make more sense. Remember Obama’s buddy Tony Rezko ~ that’s what the name means.
Investigators finally caught up with Vineyard on Friday at his girlfriends house and arrested him.
So where was the SWAT team and what happened to her door.
It appears to me that these cops were sending this old couple a message.
Kindly elderly folk should be more careful of the company they keep.
I’d like to file this article under the “Stupid Florida Law Enforcement Agency Actions” category. God knows, that category is overflowing already.
But this type of crap is happening elsewhere too.
I don’t understand why the police feel the need to bust in on people like this unless there is an imminent threat to someone. Why not wait for the suspect to leave a premise and arrest him in the open?
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i thought warrants were not supposed to be served at NIGHT!!!They are very fortunate that they were not killed.
What? His fake ID was not correct?
There are better things to do like clearing the streets of newspaper delivery people.
Not so fast, said Sheriff Chris Nocco. Vineyard is Carl and Juanita's grandson and it's their address on his license. On top of that, the sheriff said a reliable informant led investigators to their home specifically.
I don't see any denial that they knew he lived next door. I don't see any denial that they had been there and talked to him in person. Apparently they put more trust in their "reliable informant" than their own lying eyes and ears.