What is the name of your state? California
A couple of weeks ago our house was "raided". It was a bizarre experience. I guess I thought it should have gone like all those reality shows out now like "Dallas SWAT". Anyway, the police from a neighboring city started banging on our door at 8:30 in the morning. There were maybe 5 police men total, all at the front door with their guns aimed. My boyfriend answered the door, they pulled him out, shouting for us to put our hands up. They escort us out one by one (We have 1 roommate in the house with her own room, one person temporarily staying with us on our couch, another roommate that lives in an apartment attached to the garage and a couple that was visiting us that morning.) leaving us to stand around the hood of the car parked in our driveway with our hands on the hood, of course. None of us had any idea what this was about.
So, we asked and did not receive one solid answer. There was no paperwork or warrant presented to my boyfriend who is the owner of the house. We were told they were there looking for someone but wouldn't say who. We were also told they were conducting a drug raid because someone told them our house would be a good place to look.
They get us all out and a couple of them go back in the house. We can see them through the front window looking in drawers and flipping the couch coushins etc. The go to our room and come back with a miniscule amount of methamphetamine, and some pills. The pills were mine, I have a script for them. I left a couple loose on my desk the night before because I was going to take them and decided not to and was too lazy to put them back. The meth belonged to that couple that was visiting us. The girl had been cleaning out her purse when all this started and the contents of said purse were sprawled across my bed, meth included. This is what the cops found. They did a very cursory look through my room, opening up drawers and jewelry boxes but not really thrashing anything. They left my pot. They briefly glance in the roommates room in the house, I don't think anyone fully entered the room before they were coming back out again. They never went into the garage or into the adjoing apartment. They never even went into the backyard.
They took the girl aside and started harassing her about the dope and said that if no one copped to it they were going to arrest her since she was the last person in that room. Of course she didn't cop to it, even though it was hers, and told her to sit back down. (right after they got us all out, one of the officers brought out my kitchen chairs and placed them in the front yard for us to sit on while they "searched".) At any rate, a few minutes go by and I over hear them arresting my boyfriend for the dope since he was the home owner and no one came forward to claim it, the male of the visiting couple because he was on parole and is not supposed to have any contact with the police, and the temporary couch dweller for probation violation(he had a pocket knife and was hanging around known felons). They had seperated the three of them and took them to the sidewalk when the one had brought out the chairs for the rest of us. We have alot of trees in our front yard and couldn't see them but we could hear the police explaining about why he was arresting my boyfriend. No one ever read any of them their rights at any point.
The parolee was released because there was no reason to hold him. He had no drugs or weapons on his person and was in plain sight of the police men at all times during this ordeal. The couch dweller had a probation hold placed on him and had to spend the weekend in jail. We bailed my boyfriend out. When he was released he was not given any paper work at all, no copy of the booking report or of personal belongings, nothing. He was told when his court date was and that's it. He never found out why they were even at our house in the first place.
When the couch dweller went to court he said he saw a copy of the report and that the poice claim to have given a copy of the warrant to the homeowner upon entry. The warrant was for a previous roommate who had moved a good 6 months prior to all this and is currently incarcerated in Orange County Jail.
Now, what are the chances for a DA reject in all this? Aren't they supposed to present you with a copy of the search warrant upon entry? And if they were supposed to be looking for a man what were they doing looking in drawers and flipping couch cushions instead of inspecting the garage and backyard? Not to mention, don't the police do a computer search to make sure that the person they are looking for isn't in jail before they waste their time and our money on pointless excersizes? The whole thing was so slipshod. And is that proceedure, to arrest the house owner if no one claims the meth?
(sorry about the length of this)
A couple of weeks ago our house was "raided". It was a bizarre experience. I guess I thought it should have gone like all those reality shows out now like "Dallas SWAT". Anyway, the police from a neighboring city started banging on our door at 8:30 in the morning. There were maybe 5 police men total, all at the front door with their guns aimed. My boyfriend answered the door, they pulled him out, shouting for us to put our hands up. They escort us out one by one (We have 1 roommate in the house with her own room, one person temporarily staying with us on our couch, another roommate that lives in an apartment attached to the garage and a couple that was visiting us that morning.) leaving us to stand around the hood of the car parked in our driveway with our hands on the hood, of course. None of us had any idea what this was about.
So, we asked and did not receive one solid answer. There was no paperwork or warrant presented to my boyfriend who is the owner of the house. We were told they were there looking for someone but wouldn't say who. We were also told they were conducting a drug raid because someone told them our house would be a good place to look.
They get us all out and a couple of them go back in the house. We can see them through the front window looking in drawers and flipping the couch coushins etc. The go to our room and come back with a miniscule amount of methamphetamine, and some pills. The pills were mine, I have a script for them. I left a couple loose on my desk the night before because I was going to take them and decided not to and was too lazy to put them back. The meth belonged to that couple that was visiting us. The girl had been cleaning out her purse when all this started and the contents of said purse were sprawled across my bed, meth included. This is what the cops found. They did a very cursory look through my room, opening up drawers and jewelry boxes but not really thrashing anything. They left my pot. They briefly glance in the roommates room in the house, I don't think anyone fully entered the room before they were coming back out again. They never went into the garage or into the adjoing apartment. They never even went into the backyard.
They took the girl aside and started harassing her about the dope and said that if no one copped to it they were going to arrest her since she was the last person in that room. Of course she didn't cop to it, even though it was hers, and told her to sit back down. (right after they got us all out, one of the officers brought out my kitchen chairs and placed them in the front yard for us to sit on while they "searched".) At any rate, a few minutes go by and I over hear them arresting my boyfriend for the dope since he was the home owner and no one came forward to claim it, the male of the visiting couple because he was on parole and is not supposed to have any contact with the police, and the temporary couch dweller for probation violation(he had a pocket knife and was hanging around known felons). They had seperated the three of them and took them to the sidewalk when the one had brought out the chairs for the rest of us. We have alot of trees in our front yard and couldn't see them but we could hear the police explaining about why he was arresting my boyfriend. No one ever read any of them their rights at any point.
The parolee was released because there was no reason to hold him. He had no drugs or weapons on his person and was in plain sight of the police men at all times during this ordeal. The couch dweller had a probation hold placed on him and had to spend the weekend in jail. We bailed my boyfriend out. When he was released he was not given any paper work at all, no copy of the booking report or of personal belongings, nothing. He was told when his court date was and that's it. He never found out why they were even at our house in the first place.
When the couch dweller went to court he said he saw a copy of the report and that the poice claim to have given a copy of the warrant to the homeowner upon entry. The warrant was for a previous roommate who had moved a good 6 months prior to all this and is currently incarcerated in Orange County Jail.
Now, what are the chances for a DA reject in all this? Aren't they supposed to present you with a copy of the search warrant upon entry? And if they were supposed to be looking for a man what were they doing looking in drawers and flipping couch cushions instead of inspecting the garage and backyard? Not to mention, don't the police do a computer search to make sure that the person they are looking for isn't in jail before they waste their time and our money on pointless excersizes? The whole thing was so slipshod. And is that proceedure, to arrest the house owner if no one claims the meth?
(sorry about the length of this)
