Posted on 06/22/2012 10:05:51 PM PDT by Altariel
ochester police and federal agents made a mistake in Charlotte this week that has one woman baffled and frightened. She wants to know how they could mistake her house for one they were supposed to raid in a drug bust.
“I was sitting in my living room texting on my phone and I heard somebody come in my back door. I didn't realize at the time what they were saying, but ultimately they were yelling out A-T-F, A-T-F.”
Nancy Dominicos says what happened next at her home on Tiernan Street Wednesday night is almost unbelievable.
“I thought it was a family member pulling a joke on me. And all of the sudden I looked up and they were in my dinning room pointing a loaded gun at me telling me they had a federal warrant to search my premises.”
Dominicos says she kept telling the three ATF agents this wasn't right. They told her they were searching for narcotics and asked if anyone else was home. She said her adult son was upstairs and that's when this story almost turned tragic.
“My son had heard me arguing with this man and it was not a voice he'd recognize. My son is a hunter, he put a bullet in the chamber of his gun. They heard that, they yelled down long gun, at that point there he told another ATF agent that was with me, handcuff her and take her out,” Dominicos said.
Thankfully Dominicos' son recognized it was law enforcement and put the gun down right away. Dominicos says the handcuffs caused bruises and as she was going outside with an ATF agent she heard him say they had the wrong house. The ATF and Rochester police executed a number of search warrants Wednesday night. Police sent us a statement, saying they entered the home through an unlocked side door and quote:
"Upon encountering an elderly resident, the team realized that they were at the wrong location at that time and left the premises."
Officers then searched the correct house down the street.
Dominicos says the whole event plays over and over in her mind,
“I'm still terrified. It's almost like a P.T.S.D. experience, you keep hearing things. You think oh my God I hear a door slam, I hear someone pulling into my driveway. I see a light it's like oh my God are they back?”
"How could they make that mistake, how could they make that mistake?”
Drug War has to end.
No dogs shot!? WTF!
Simple ... there are never any consequences for them when they do.
They all belong in prison, along with the toads that(fail to) supervise them.
Charges should include, but not be limited to burglary, breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon, deprivation of civil rights under color of the law, and conspiracy to commit.
Gee, a mistake was made therefore all cops are bad ... go figure.
It’s easy for a cop to blow off the loss of others’ feelings of security, privacy, freedom as just a mistake at the hands of your brothers. After all, that’s what you do every day. The rest of us don’t feel that way.
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go figure.
Burglary, breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon, deprivation of civil rights under color of the law, and conspiracy to commit aren't "mistakes", "Doc".
They're crimes. Felonies, even. The perpetrators in weird costumes belong in prison.
You aren't defending violent criminals, are you?
No more playing soldier rod cops. No more of this sh1t.
I spent most of my adult life as a police officer, my primary objective in getting out of bed in the morning was to protect and serve. That was drilled into me in training and reiterated all through my career as a police officer. I like to think I did a pretty good job matching the expectations of the police credo “protect and serve”. Most of my colleagues thought the same way and yet we are all condemned my mistakes like this. Go figure.
Back then, there was some "midnight" requirement, but I would vote for a law requiring immediate summary execution for anyone (regardless of their attire or paperwork) forcibly entering an occupied residence, unless there is active gunfire or some such coming from inside said residence.
How is it that millions of law-abiding Americans manage to get addresses *correct* every single day but purportedly law-enforcing officers cannot?
By the way, if any non-officer had broken into their same home, he would not get away with claiming he “made a mistake”, but would be arrested for breaking and entering.
Charge the offending government thugs with the same crime.
“Oh, this is the wrong house? You’re all under arrest for breaking and entering, and causing unnecessary emotional distress on these good citizens”.
a brainless twit ... Are you referring to me?
Breaking and entering is not a “mistake”.
If you’re going to bust into a house like you’re looking for Khalid Sheik Mohammed, you think you might check the address first?
Also, why is ATF doing drug busts? (just curious, I really don’t know)
SWAT busts down wrong door (ad)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rDOPcCxHOI
It is so sad how much the average citizen hates the police, yet 911 is the most called phone number in the US.
Couldn’t alcohol be considered a drug?/s
Sure, we’ll just add some more letters anyway.
Originally ATF, then BATFE, now BATFED!
The average citizen doesn't hate the police. When the police forcibly enter an occupied residence, they become the criminals by their own actions.
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