Busted Anyway For 'Disorderly House'
Law "enforcement" in a police state.
SWAT team searches home for drugs, comes up empty
"CEDAR RAPIDS – Police in SWAT gear busted through a door and searched a Cedar Rapids home for drugs Thursday morning, but came up empty.
At least 12 officers surprised the tenants at 1135 33rdSt. NE when they arrived around 7 a.m. with a narcotics search warrant. Sgt. Cristy Hamblin, a police spokeswoman, later confirmed that nothing was seized from the house.
No one was taken to jail, but the tenants of the house, Justin Davis, 28, and his girlfriend, Erica Lewis, 26, were charged with disorderly house and signed a promise to appear in court, police said. No one was injured during the raid.
Davis said his 5-year-old daughter was in her room when officers busted a hole in the front door. He said he came to the door when he heard a K-9 unit dog barking, and was pulled outside, where he was told to lie face down in his front yard. He said the officers had him at gunpoint.
Davis was visibly upset after police left and mentioned moving out of the area.
“What do you think my neighbors think about me now?” Davis said. “My character has been assassinated, and I’m really upset about that.”
Davis said he and Lewis were handcuffed while officers searched. They were told police had information that there was drug activity at their house."
"Davis said he is on probation and it would be stupid for him to be involved with drugs.
“They should have made sure they had concrete evidence before they knock in someone’s door,” Davis said.
Disorderly house is described as a building or room where someone “resorted to for” illegal activity involving drugs, alcohol, gambling or prostitution, according to a city ordinance."
Seems like a bullshit variation on the default disorderly conduct, which along with interference and assault on an officer are those vague charges that authoritarian thugs freely charge people with when the cops themselves are the problem. Hit the victims with anything so police screwups and outright criminal behavior gets watered down.
SWAT team searches home for drugs, comes up empty
"CEDAR RAPIDS – Police in SWAT gear busted through a door and searched a Cedar Rapids home for drugs Thursday morning, but came up empty.
At least 12 officers surprised the tenants at 1135 33rdSt. NE when they arrived around 7 a.m. with a narcotics search warrant. Sgt. Cristy Hamblin, a police spokeswoman, later confirmed that nothing was seized from the house.
No one was taken to jail, but the tenants of the house, Justin Davis, 28, and his girlfriend, Erica Lewis, 26, were charged with disorderly house and signed a promise to appear in court, police said. No one was injured during the raid.
Davis said his 5-year-old daughter was in her room when officers busted a hole in the front door. He said he came to the door when he heard a K-9 unit dog barking, and was pulled outside, where he was told to lie face down in his front yard. He said the officers had him at gunpoint.
Davis was visibly upset after police left and mentioned moving out of the area.
“What do you think my neighbors think about me now?” Davis said. “My character has been assassinated, and I’m really upset about that.”
Davis said he and Lewis were handcuffed while officers searched. They were told police had information that there was drug activity at their house."
"Davis said he is on probation and it would be stupid for him to be involved with drugs.
“They should have made sure they had concrete evidence before they knock in someone’s door,” Davis said.
Disorderly house is described as a building or room where someone “resorted to for” illegal activity involving drugs, alcohol, gambling or prostitution, according to a city ordinance."
Seems like a bullshit variation on the default disorderly conduct, which along with interference and assault on an officer are those vague charges that authoritarian thugs freely charge people with when the cops themselves are the problem. Hit the victims with anything so police screwups and outright criminal behavior gets watered down.
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