redtourmaline
Junior Member
I live in Georgia and my question is: can you sue the police department or persons there in?
I will explain. A couple years ago I came home to my then 16 year old son handcuffed in the nude and five policemen in my living room. When I walked in theY started shouting things like who am I, did I know my son was selling drugs, this is a crack house...you just don't know it... crazy and to me insane statements. They had searched my house without me there and with no warrant or reason. They found a blown light blub in the trash, said it was for smoking or doing somekind of drug, they found a straw in my trash can, said it was for doing cocaine, and they found stuff like old leaves and sticks under my couch and said they were pot (NOT!) Anyway, we were taken to jail.
I found out when I got out how they came to be in my apartment. When the police came to our apartment my son and his friend Brett were asleep. Brett went to answer the door and asked who it was because he couldn't see anyone thru the peephole. The answer from the otherside of the door was "maintenance" so he opened it to see the Acworth police standing there. The police asked for someone he didn't know, he told them he didn't live there and said he would go get my son and closed the door. Next thing Brett knows the police had come in the door and followed him to my son's room, they grabbed him up from his bed, nude, handcuffed him and brought him out to the living room. He stayed that way for an hour while they questioned him and searched my place, then I came home.
When I came home from jail I found out what happened was the person across from us was a drug dealer who had just moved in a couple months before. They had gone to the wrong apartment and after they realized what they had done were too embarassed or whatever to admit it so they just found a way to make us look guilty. They then proceeded to go to the correct apartment and find the real drugs and dealer and took them to jail right after us.
This is one of the most corrupt police departments. Their court (Acworths) said if I paid the enormous fine that they would drop the charges and there would be no record of any arrest but I didn't trust them so I had it held over to another court. Needless to say, and thank God, the charges were dismissed because that court knew and stated it to me, how corrupt this particular police department is.
Two things I want to know is can I sue anyone, any department for this wrong doing?
I was told at the time I couldn't by just friends but heard resently that it might be possible. My son still suffers from nightmares and hates the police, which I don't want him too, just because of this particular police force.
My other question is: If the case was dropped why does it say on the police record no-low (spelling?) I had to get a background check resently and was sure it was clean, come to find out there was a record of the arrest and a plea, which I DID NOT DO.
Can you help and what is the time limit on something like this?
I will explain. A couple years ago I came home to my then 16 year old son handcuffed in the nude and five policemen in my living room. When I walked in theY started shouting things like who am I, did I know my son was selling drugs, this is a crack house...you just don't know it... crazy and to me insane statements. They had searched my house without me there and with no warrant or reason. They found a blown light blub in the trash, said it was for smoking or doing somekind of drug, they found a straw in my trash can, said it was for doing cocaine, and they found stuff like old leaves and sticks under my couch and said they were pot (NOT!) Anyway, we were taken to jail.
I found out when I got out how they came to be in my apartment. When the police came to our apartment my son and his friend Brett were asleep. Brett went to answer the door and asked who it was because he couldn't see anyone thru the peephole. The answer from the otherside of the door was "maintenance" so he opened it to see the Acworth police standing there. The police asked for someone he didn't know, he told them he didn't live there and said he would go get my son and closed the door. Next thing Brett knows the police had come in the door and followed him to my son's room, they grabbed him up from his bed, nude, handcuffed him and brought him out to the living room. He stayed that way for an hour while they questioned him and searched my place, then I came home.
When I came home from jail I found out what happened was the person across from us was a drug dealer who had just moved in a couple months before. They had gone to the wrong apartment and after they realized what they had done were too embarassed or whatever to admit it so they just found a way to make us look guilty. They then proceeded to go to the correct apartment and find the real drugs and dealer and took them to jail right after us.
This is one of the most corrupt police departments. Their court (Acworths) said if I paid the enormous fine that they would drop the charges and there would be no record of any arrest but I didn't trust them so I had it held over to another court. Needless to say, and thank God, the charges were dismissed because that court knew and stated it to me, how corrupt this particular police department is.
Two things I want to know is can I sue anyone, any department for this wrong doing?
I was told at the time I couldn't by just friends but heard resently that it might be possible. My son still suffers from nightmares and hates the police, which I don't want him too, just because of this particular police force.
My other question is: If the case was dropped why does it say on the police record no-low (spelling?) I had to get a background check resently and was sure it was clean, come to find out there was a record of the arrest and a plea, which I DID NOT DO.
Can you help and what is the time limit on something like this?