Wrongfully-arrested man considers lawsuit after marshals storm home

http://www.wlwt.com ^ | 9:37 PM EDT Apr 12, 2013 | unknown

[redreno]

HILLSBORO, Ohio —U.S. Marshals stormed a home and arrested a man believing he had drugs and guns Thursday morning in Hillsboro.

The only problem was that marshals had the wrong man and even the wrong house.

Nicholas Brown was making breakfast for his three children and getting ready for work when a dozen armed marshals barged into his home and arrested him for offenses he said he never committed.

[Venturer]

Wait: Soon they will be coming for your guns.

If you do happen to see them coming. Remember they wear body armor.

[BamaDi]

If there was a federal warrant out there or the Marshals are part of a local area task force with other local and federal LEOs.

[cydcharisse]

At least the guy didn’t have a dog the gestapo could kill.

[JRandomFreeper]

I would be very upset.

I would be very dead.

/johnny

[TangoLimaSierra]

If you do happen to see them coming. Remember they wear body armor.

Right. Always shoot them low.

[Vince Ferrer]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good idea !

[Gefreiter]

It took them hours to realize that their target was black but the guy they arrested was white?

Wow. Just... wow.

Too bad none of the special ed agents who pulled this off will lose their job.

[savedbygrace]

When a LEO requests a warrant from a judge and the warrant turns out to be wrong, that LEO ought to go on a list of officers who cannot have any further warrants signed for three years or more.

Get it right or lose the privilege.

[Romulus]

For decades the loudest yelps for law ‘n’ order came from the right, fretting about their property and never pausing to think police powers might one day oppress them. Call it karma.

[Rusty0604]

I agree, these raid should only be used for extreme circumstances. They are used constantly when there is no immediate danger, just suspicion of drugs. They don’t even consider children and other family members let alone it being the wrong house. I’m sure the cops love the rush though. I don’t understand how we let them get away with this.

[Chode]

that's what i thought, there had to be a Federal warrant, but it didn't make that clear in the article

[SendShaqtoIraq]

or do they just rubber-stamp whatever LEO hands them?

Yep.

[Rusty0604]

Probably wasn’t PC to put that little piece of identifying info at the top.

[sheana]

When I was 24-25 this kind of happened to me. I was awakened on a Saturday morning with a whole troop of undercover city cops banging on my door. They came in and searched the place top to bottom, found about 12 ‘pills’ in my purse, handcuffed and arrested me. During the search the head guy kept saying crap to me about the guy I was seeing at the time (I didn’t know it but he was under investigation for arson which I knew absolutely nothing about).
It just so happened that I was a county employee so after the first court appearance by my attorney one of the detectives came to visit me. In a round about way he said that all charges had been dropped since the drugs found were otc caffeine (they were actually diet pills) and that my name had come up as a possible dealer when they had talked to an informant. Once they found out about the connection with my boyfriend (who was under investigation) they had decided to follow the lead to see if they could get some info on him. He actually apologized to me for the treatment of me by his partner.
Sidenote: Never did many drugs and would have never contemplated dealing them.

[Enterprise]

"For decades the loudest yelps for law ‘n’ order came from the right"

Well, ok. From now on the right will yell loudly for "criminality 'n chaos."

[Enterprise]

This is always so unfair. Whenever they get it wrong and don’t find guns and drugs, the least they can do is to leave him some guns and drugs as an apology.

[EricT.]

"For decades the loudest yelps for law ‘n’ order came from the right"

Well, ok. From now on the right will yell loudly for "criminality 'n chaos."

As if there is no middle ground where the police aren't militarized civil-rights trampling jackboots but still professionally go after REAL criminals.

[Truth29]

"Yep, they find themselves in court, and someone will have to offer up half-a-million I think to make this guy happy."

Yes, but one of the problems is that it is only taxpayer dollars. They don't care unless there are individual sanctions against individual officers or other officials.

[Christie at the beach]

Would be very scary, wouldn't it. An entire team of cops in your home unannounced. I do understand they have to get the bad guy though they have to get it right or wait until the person is outside. I don't know if I would sue, though it would be an intimating ordeal. Most of these cases, it's timed so precisely, no time to react. My hubby as a teen, he and his cousin was thought to be involved in a crime. It was 2 others guys similar in age. The 2 did the robbery had the same color car as hubby's (dark green Dodge Dart). He says he'll never forget that. He didn't sue. His dad wanted to. Gosh, his dad was furious when he went to the sheriff to get his son. It's a wonder he didn't end up in jail. Hubby's been a cop so he looks at that differently now. He says that have to be sure before going in or don't mess it up. They have to have their tools though I don't want them getting too much power.