An Orange County [FL] amputee homeowner got a terrifying surprise early Thursday, when about 40 sheriff’s deputies and FBI agents crashed, guns drawn, through his doors and windows only to realize they had the wrong house, the man told Channel 9.
The raid happened at about 5:30 a.m., and homeowner Oscar Capps said he tried to tell the agents and Orange County sheriff’s deputies that the man they wanted was next door.
The state’s goons were having none of that.
For hours, they searched his Cleburne Road home, all the while Capps continued to tell them they had the wrong address.
Eventually, the agents and deputies did turn their investigation to the home next to Capps’, but the damage done to his home and emotionally to him and his 7-year-old son and 71-year-old relative was already done, he said.
Because FY, TW.
“They are saying there is nothing they are going to do for me,” he said. “They are going to send somebody out to board up the windows and put a door on. So where do I go from here?”
Law enforcement agencies involved in the raid have not released information for what they had been looking.
Agents did arrest Capps next door neighbor, but have not released why the man was taken in to custody.
The FBI sent an email to Eyewitness News stating, “The FBI had a valid arrest and search warrant for 2835 Cleburne Road. At the time of serving the warrant, the person of interest was located next door.”
Note the use of the “passive voice” and making it sound as though the “person of interest” was visiting their next door neighbor for tea and crumpets instead of, y’know, actually residing next door and not in the house they wrongly raided.
Eyewitness News was originally told nobody would pay because the FBI denied it was the wrong house. However, late Thursday, there was a company at the home getting a damage estimate and Levkulich was told the estimate will be sent to the FBI.
The FBI has a legal unit where anyone who believes their home was wrongly damaged from a raid can call and file a claim. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office has a similar policy. The FBI told Eyewitness News that homeowners make the necessary repairs first, then submit a reimbursement claim to the FBI.
Wasn’t there an early document about addressing grievances? I have trouble imagining the Founders setting up a government that was unaccountable to the people and immune from responsibility for abusing it’s power. I keep thinking of that whole Second Amendment thing.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…
Fatwa, did Brenda say you could use her prophetic raven for your costume?
That’s just one of her carpy old generic ravens. (Obviously, she’s up to stuff she doesn’t want prophecied in my direction…)
Her costume came out really well. Because she has a reputation around her company for handily fixing software broken by others, she went as the [Company Name] Fixit Fairy.
Comically XL paper painter’s coverall (with her “title” stenciled in sparkly pink paint), cheesy pink fairy wings (with a duct tape “X” artfully applied to one of them), Wicked Witch of the West striped socks and pink shoes with bows.
I donated my rubber mallet to the cause, which she spray-painted with purple sparkles and wore in a too-large belt sitting at a jaunty angle. And the whole thing was topped by a slightly bedraggled pink, sparkly tiara.
It came out much better than I would have expected when she first described it to me.
Happy Halloween, GN!
Sometimes “going big” is just the right size. (Note the sentiment on the sign, too.)
And because it’s Monday as well as Halloween:
Edgar Allen Hoe:
Criminy…yet another wrong-door raid; this one features the FBI:
http://www.wftv.com/news/local/fbi-deputies-raid-orange-county-home-resident-says-they-had-the-wrong-address/461183932
The state’s goons were having none of that.
Because FY, TW.
Note the use of the “passive voice” and making it sound as though the “person of interest” was visiting their next door neighbor for tea and crumpets instead of, y’know, actually residing next door and not in the house they wrongly raided.
Because FY, TW, redux.
Well, whom among us hasn’t gotten an address wrong?
Monday, Monday: I LOVE Mondays! Good morning, GN!
Teh Hillary! meltdown continues. Awesome.
Hai, Sven!
Heh.
Sure…but I’ve never broken their windows and then tossed their house for hours. 👿
Nor has Jim teh Roofer’s company ever torn the roof off of the wrong building. In-part because, for us, there would be tangible consequences.
Good morning, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa, and Sven!
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
Exactly!
And that needs to change.
Wasn’t there an early document about addressing grievances? I have trouble imagining the Founders setting up a government that was unaccountable to the people and immune from responsibility for abusing it’s power. I keep thinking of that whole Second Amendment thing.
I’m sure they’d like us to forget about that.
Fatwa, did Brenda say you could use her prophetic raven for your costume?
Those jack booted thugs were almost as persistent in pushing their address mistake as Deb. I hope she has given up on that poor nun.
Some wag on Twitter came up with the hashtag #CocktoberSurprise for the latest Weiner revelations.
A Weiner wag??? You really went there?
I’ve been crossing the bounds of good taste here for a decade because, well, someone has to do it.
Drive-by:
Hai, Paddy and Mac!
We haz 2A.
That’s just one of her carpy old generic ravens. (Obviously, she’s up to stuff she doesn’t want prophecied in my direction…)
Her costume came out really well. Because she has a reputation around her company for handily fixing software broken by others, she went as the [Company Name] Fixit Fairy.
Comically XL paper painter’s coverall (with her “title” stenciled in sparkly pink paint), cheesy pink fairy wings (with a duct tape “X” artfully applied to one of them), Wicked Witch of the West striped socks and pink shoes with bows.
I donated my rubber mallet to the cause, which she spray-painted with purple sparkles and wore in a too-large belt sitting at a jaunty angle. And the whole thing was topped by a slightly bedraggled pink, sparkly tiara.
It came out much better than I would have expected when she first described it to me.
Mrs. Paddy asked if you got photos.
Took a couple this morning; I’ll check with BK about email distribution later.
DO IT!! DO IT NOW!!!
Hee! That’s an “always funny” in my book.