Posted on 01/04/2009 6:40:12 AM PST by rellimpank
Las Vegas police officers served a search warrant at the Seven Hills home of Emmanuel Dozier on Panorama Ridge Drive in Henderson at about 9:30 last Sunday evening.
The officers say they announced themselves, got no response, and opened fire to break the lock off the metal front door.
At that point, the suspect, a 32-year-old sheet-metal worker, also opened fire. Three police officers were wounded.
Mr. Dozier, who was suspected of cocaine trafficking and is now held in lieu of $3 million bail, says he thought it was a home invasion.
"I want you to know something in your heart. I did not mean to shoot any cops," police report that he told them.
An attorney for his girlfriend, Belinda Saavedra, says her client dialed 9-1-1 from the home during the police raid, believing it to be a (non-police) home invasion.
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If they used the lockbuster on the flush door, they missed too.
THEY MISSED!!!
Now how can you miss the door handle/lock standing right there.
I'm sure most of you old guys remember (first name redacted) (last name redacted.) I don't know if you know that he now lives in Las Vegas, and is a member of our police SWAT team. They had a high risk search warrant, so when that happens, the SWAT team is the one to serve it. When they got to the door, it was a metal security door, (first name redacted) fired five shotgun rounds trying to open the door. The person inside started shooting back through the door, wounding three of the SWAT team members. They're all okay now. (first name redacted) got shot in the leg, just above the knee. He's home recovering now. Old (group word redacted) (group word redacted) still can't resist being where the action is!!!
Sheriff Andy using his intelligence and humanity (backed up with a gun) to diffuse a situation is, well, that is so wimpy and dull and not newsworthy. Sending 100 Barney Fifes to the wrong house with machine guns blazing is macho and exciting and an excuse to ask for more funding. They can argue it took 100 Barney Fifes with machine guns to pacify the wrong house that had a 90 year old grandma and her cats in it, therefore they need funding for 500 Barney Fifes and a small tank just in case they really do have to attack a house that happens to have a dangerous criminal in it. Statistically, sooner or later a stray bullet might hit a real criminal so there, it is justified.
That's because they used standard, over the counter ammunition. Door breaching rounds are made with a sintered slug of powdered metal and fired at point blank range from a 12 ga. shotgun. The slug disintegrates on impact and expends all it's kinetic energy on the lock. The shotgun is usually fitted with a tubular "stand off" device which allows the shooter to in effect, put the muzzle right on the lock.
Regards,
GtG
PS If the lock doesn't fall off, use a bigger gun! A .50BMG round will go through 2" of mild steel...
It looks like their breaching round missed the target!
Fasinating...
I stand corrected.
Depending on what needs to be breached, they’ll use a sledgehammer, a door ram, or a breaching round. Explosives are also used when necessary, although that’s more of a military thing. I gather that most civilian LEO departments don’t use them.
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