Posted on 02/07/2009 3:04:18 PM PST by ellery
"They hit the door right here and the door flew open," says Mike Hasenei, standing outside his Elkridge home.
His wife, Phyllis, was watching television with her 12-year old daughter when members of the Howard County Police Tactical Team came through the door.
"They had guns pointed at us. You have 25 guys coming in here all dressed in black and all that we saw were their eyes, and they're screaming 'Hands in the air!'"
Members of the team were acting upon a tip that an assault rifle, magazines and hollow-point bullets stolen from a marked police car the night before may be located inside.
Adding insult to injury, when the search led police to a back bedroom where they encountered the family’s dog, they opened fire.
Officers found no evidence of the stolen goods after ransacking the house.
At this point a complaint has been logged against the department, but Howard County Police aren't about to admit they were wrong or to apologize for their actions.
"No. We didn't find a weapon in this particular case,” said Sherry Llewellyn, a spokeswoman for the department, “but that doesn't mean that there wasn't good information that there were weapons there before we had a chance to get inside the house."
Now, Mike Hasenei is waiting on an Internal Affairs investigation into the raid before deciding whether he and his family will take the department to court.
"I'm not gonna sit down and let people walk all over me and say 'sorry' and walk out of my house."
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Right. Must have flushed the evidence down the toilet.
I need to know what kind of dog it was before I decide if this upsets me.
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The reports I’ve seen say Australian Cattle Dog, hiding in the bedroom.
I try to post that on every thread of this nature. Thanks for the help. We need as many as possible to see that.
What does this story have to do with drugs?
Everyone knows where Elkridge and Howard County are. [Little irony and sarcasm there.]
Before the hysterics start and the gossip between the back fence of the trailer park results in spilled beer, perhaps judgment can be reserved until more is known about the assassination of the Chihuahua.
That's exactly what it means. The information was no good. Also, if its a couple of weapons, why not send a heavily armed team but do a knock on the door service of the search warrant? You don't need 25 guys.
Sorry, Spokeswoman Sherry. The fact that nothing was found means exactly that "there wasn't good information ..."
Just curious. Does anyone reading this trust your government?
This crap won’t stop till cops start to die instead of us or our pets. The fact that now anything will bring down these no-knock raids is bad news for all of us.
There would be a large number of cops looking over their shoulders every single day for the rest of their lives had this happened to my family.
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Under ‘the one,’ this crap is bound to increase.
If they had a ‘shot the dog’ map it would probably cover entire states.
Uh, isn’t the fact that they didn’t find anything enough of a concern for you?
But since you asked, here are some more links. The man involved is a computer analyst for Mariott. In addition to killing his dog, they cuffed his twelve year old daughter.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/020609_dog_killed_during_raid
http://wjz.com/local/warrant.search.house.2.928336.html
http://www.ohmidog.com/2009/02/07/another-maryland-swat-team-kills-a-dog/
Damn straight Lurker. I can’t really say anything, though, for the most part I have only dealed with the good cops. Of course, they respected that I was military.
Wonder if it was Dog the bounty hunter that got wacked
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