FBI rips through innocent woman's door with a chainsaw

• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2012-02-14 07:08

  FBI rips through innocent woman's door with a chainsaw
  
  Monday, February 13, 2012 by: J. D. Heyes
  
  (NaturalNews) One thing's for sure, life for Fitchburg, Mass., resident Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter will never be quite the same, thanks to appallingly bad intelligence - and judgment - used recently by a team of FBI agents.
  
  In late January, a team of agents launched a city-wide hunt for a drug and weapons gang. As part of the operation, agents swarmed Sanchez's building in the hopes of nabbing one of their suspects.
  
  Some of the agents gathered in front of Apartment 2R. They revved up the chainsaw they brought with them to cut through the front door and buzzed away.
  
  The only problem is the guy they were looking for lives in Apartment 2F. So all they found was a very stunned Sanchez and her daughter.
  
  It all began shortly after 6 a.m. Sanchez, 29, told local media she heard a pounding on her door just before her alarm was set to go off.
  
  "I just happened to glance over and saw this huge chainsaw ripping down the side of my door," she said. "And I was freaking out. I didn't know what to do."
  
  It only took a few moments for the chainsaw to chew through most of the door. Then, an agent on the FBI's arrest team kicked in what remained, further traumatizing the occupants, no doubt. But the traumatizing didn't end there.
  
  "That's when I heard the clicking of a gun and I heard 'FBI, get down!', so I laid right on down," Sanchez said.
  
  Agents even traumatized the family pet.
  
  "[T]hey said get your dog, so I got her and at the same time I am laying in her urine because she did pee on herself at the same time," said Sanchez. That's saying something, considering the family dog is a three-month-old Pit Bull.
  
  Not content at the level of terror already inflicted - again, wrongly - agents made Sanchez lay prostrate on the floor for 35 minutes, while her daughter cried for her in another room. One report said Sanchez was forced to lay in the dog's urine.
  
  "I was told not to move, so I didn't move," she said, adding she feared she would be shot if she did move.
  
  Getting it Right
  
  Finally, after what likely seemed an eternity for Sanchez and her family, the feds realized they were in the wrong place, so they left and arrested the right person.
  
  Sanchez was left shaking her head and wondering how, after a two-year investigation, the FBI couldn't even pick the right apartment.
  
  "The looks on their faces when they knew they got the wrong door was priceless," she said, adding they looked "dumbfounded."
  
  Later in the day, Sanchez said an agent came by to apologize, but to her it seemed half-hearted and less than genuine.
  
  "For me it felt routine apology, it felt like just a regular, 'I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Here's the phone number for your landlord to get reimbursed for the door, have a good day,'" she said.
  
  "I don't think it's good enough," she told a local newspaper. "It's a start."
  
  Sources for this article include:
  
  http://boston.cbslocal.com
  
  http://www.telegram.com/article/20120202/NEWS/102029814/0/NEWS02

  
  
  Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/034945_FBI_raid_chainsaw.html
  
  Well at least no one got tasered...
  :chomp2:
• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-02-14 07:17
  Government... Gotta just sigh and shake my head.
• Meikeru wrote on 2012-02-14 07:39
  The lady seems a bit self-entitled. Law enforcement officers are people too and are prone to mistakes. They owned up to the mistake, apologized and had the door reimbursed. Yet the lady wants more. What's else to give?
  
  Knowing the general populace, they'll agree. Yet a few months later when another article talks about what the lady gets from this mistake, they rage about taxpayer's money being wasted.
• paladin wrote on 2012-02-14 08:55
  She got compesanted
  If shes looking for emitonal help
  Feds are the worst place to find it
• TA wrote on 2012-02-14 09:00
  Nah, she should sue. The article already sounds set up for a nice couple million dollar lawsuit for the trauma and humiliation rendered.
• TA wrote on 2012-02-14 09:00
  Nah, she should sue. The article already sounds set up for a nice couple million dollar lawsuit for the trauma and humiliation rendered.
• Meikeru wrote on 2012-02-14 09:05

  Quote from TA;774141:

  Nah, she should sue. The article already sounds set up for a nice couple million dollar lawsuit for the trauma and humiliation rendered.

  
  
  I dunno. She seems fine to me at:
  

  "The looks on their faces when they knew they got the wrong door was priceless," she said, adding they looked "dumbfounded."

• ValkyrieHamster wrote on 2012-02-15 06:10

  Quote from Meikeru;774148:

  I dunno. She seems fine to me at:

  
  
  Doesn't matter, if she sues she'll get a nice settlement. FBI didn't do their due diligence and they should pay for it.
• Meikeru wrote on 2012-02-15 06:15

  Quote from ValkyrieHamster;775123:

  Doesn't matter, if she sues she'll get a nice settlement. FBI didn't do their due diligence and they should pay for it.

  
  
  It's quite ridiculous what people will sue for nowadays.
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-02-15 06:18

  Quote from Meikeru;775127:

  It's quite ridiculous what people will sue for nowadays.

  
  
  You can sue people for being near you if you trip(or whoever owns the land/poured the concrete/etc.), no joke.
• ValkyrieHamster wrote on 2012-02-15 06:19
  Yea, but this isn't exactly something frivolous or something from her own stupidity.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-02-15 06:27
  The issue isn't the mistake, it's how often they make these kinds of mistakes.
  
  If they had time to break into the wrong place, fiddle around and then go back and arrest the real offender, then they definitely had time to double-check which apartment they were supposed to be go to in the first place.
• Meikeru wrote on 2012-02-15 06:32

  Quote from ValkyrieHamster;775132:

  Yea, but this isn't exactly something frivolous or something from her own stupidity.

  
  
  The agents were doing their jobs, trying to protect people like her, and made a mistake. Her door was hacked apart, which was reimbursed, in an original way (gotta appreciate the creativity). She was forced to lie on the floor for roughly half an hour, whether or not she lied on pee is up for debate. If she was forced to lie on pee, so what? Rural communities would laugh at her "emotional trauma" derived from that experience. The article never actually specified how long the FBI stayed all. It uses weasel words and only implies that they were there for hours.

  "Finally, after what likely seemed an eternity"

  She got an apology, whether or not it was sufficient is still up for debate, and should be grateful that they're working to take drugs and weapons of the street.
• ValkyrieHamster wrote on 2012-02-15 06:41

  Quote from Meikeru;775142:

  She got an apology, whether or not it was sufficient is still up for debate, and should be grateful that they're working to take drugs and weapons of the street.

  
  
  Wow, um ok.
  
  Great that she got an apology...but i dunno about the grateful part.