Led by FBI Special Agent Karen Springmeyer, about a dozen officers used a battering ram to enter Adams’ rented Orchard Street home in a search for Sondra Hunter, then 35.
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i assume Sondra must have been “armed and dangerous”, to need a dozen FBI agents doing a no-knock?
...i am curious what she was accused of, but i don’t see it anywhere...
ahh. finally found it here. Sondra is finally mentioned in about the 15th paragraph:
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11063/1129584-53.stm
Nico “Cheeks” Nixon, 20, of Lower Lawrenceville, was still on the run and charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin. And Sondra Hunter, 35, of Manchester was wanted for heroin possession.
Read more: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11063/1129584-53.stm#ixzz1PauXM8iS
so like the Marine killed in Arizona, they were simply looking for drugs.
...i think way too many innocent people are being hurt in the “War on Drugs”.
all it seems to do, as per basic economics, is make drugs more expensive, which results in addicts mugging innocent people for money.
with unintended consequences of innocent citizens getting hurt, AND having their rights trampled by the government...
What I don’t understand is sending in SWAT without bothering to talk to neighbors or check other sources to see if it was the right address.
Officials THINK it MIGHT be right, so go in guns blazing, instead of low risk questioning.
I guess they didn't want Sondra to dive head first into a toilet and flush herself down.
Since Hunter hadn't lived there in 2 years, this also seems like a criminal act with negligence to me. FBI had 2 years to "figure out" she didn't live there. Breaking and entering with damage.
“A federal grand jury on Feb. 15 indicted 20 people on drug and gun charges. Sixteen are under arrest but police are still searching for the other four.”
Sondra Hunter was one of them.
A fact that could have been determined by any ten year old newspaper delivery kid in about twenty minutes. Or ask the mailman or call and pretend to be a telemarketer or fifty other cheap and easy ways to find out if your target actually lives there.
“conspiracy and heroin trafficking” according to the article.