Wilmington SWAT members raid wrong house

Digitriad.com ^ | October 4, 2012 | Unknown

[Altariel]

Steve and Jennifer Tuppeny describe an early morning raid by Wilmington SWAT team members on their Middletown home. Officers were in search of a man who had not lived in the house since 2009. (10/4/12)

[Altariel]

If you can't view the video, here is the story here: http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20121005/NEWS/310050060/Terrorized-family-SWAT-team-raids-wrong-home?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home&nclick_check=1

[BipolarBob]

Did they at least kill the dog?

[Repeat Offender]

It is getting to the point where the real story is:

SWAT Team Hits Correct House - Chief of Police States No Dogs Killed in the Raid.

[KarlInOhio]

Who needs recon when you have black uniforms and cool automatic weapons.

[andyk]

Isn’t sovereign immunity awesome? Well, unless you’re a border patrol agent.

[toolman1401]

Not even so much as ‘sorry we broke your door down and we’ll pay to replace whatever damage we did’? This could have gone really wrong if the homeowner responded with deadly force against someone breaking down his front door.

[Fledermaus]

Another one? Goodness, five year old kids can use a GPS device on a smartphone. SWAT can’t get the right house?

[andyk]

Police had a search warrant authorizing them to obtain a DNA sample.

So they had a no-knock for a DNA sample? Were they afraid he'd get rid of the evidence?

[MeganC]

I wonder who will protect us from the police?

[Little Ray]

Well, at least they gave ‘em a copy of the search warrant. And managed not to kill any dogs.

I wanna see the bootlickers justify this one.

[Altariel]

It’s not incompetence.

It’s planned terror.

They were as willing to enter that house and terrorize the residence as any brazen criminal—unlike said brazen criminal they were paid, out of your tax dollars, to terrorize this family.

[Fully Awake DAV]

“Not even so much as ‘sorry we broke your door down and we’ll pay to replace whatever damage we did’? This could have gone really wrong if the homeowner responded with deadly force against someone breaking down his front door.”

Someone trying to bust in my door...well...
Would make more sense...to walk up...post LEO’s around house, knock on door and serve warrant.

[KarlInOhio]

So the police had a four year old address for the suspect, had to smash in a door when they had already caught the current owner at gunpoint outside his house, brought in some type of "social worker" to talk to their child without permission, and then finally caught their suspect at the current address they had for him. And after all that they released him in an hour?

I wonder what the social worker talked to the kid about. "Does your daddy express fear of the government? Do you want to turn him in and get new parents for that?"

Forget the Cops! theme. I don't know whether to replace it with a tinny piano playing some Keystone Kops music or something a little more Wagnerian.

[Ratman83]

Smith and Wesson, Mossburg, Remington, Colt and others are all waiting to help.

[heartwood]

So they had a no-knock for a DNA sample? Were they afraid he’d get rid of the evidence?

_____

(Laughing. With anger and sorrow.)

[Sloth]

Not even a no-knock drug-flushing type justification. They were looking for a guy to give a DNA sample.

[Carriage Hill]

Ooops!

[Sloth]

This could have gone really wrong awesome if the homeowner responded with deadly force against someone breaking down his front door.

[gaijin]

I’d sometimes hear reports of horrible violent crimes in the very most public ethnic places and ZERO witnesses —even when HUNDREDS were documented as having been right there.

NOW I’m beginning to understand it —I mean...it seems puzzling to rat-out one set of criminals to simply another set of criminals.

I used to be a VERRRY active civic citizen and now? I’m above average headed to so-so.

[imardmd1]

Middletown is way far out of the Wilmington, DE city limits. By what protocol did any member of the Wilmington city police force have any authority in this town outside the Wilmington limits? Who authorized the use of a SWAT team in this fashion, and unaccompanied by a member of the Middletown police? Eh?