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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Richmond County Sheriff's Investigators Raid Wrong House, Hold Family At Gunpoint
Investigators with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office say they
accidently served a search warrant on the wrong house, while looking for
a suspected drug dealer in Burke County. WJBF News Channel 6 is the
only station to talk with the victim. Susan Treat says she was standing, in her laundry room, just feet
from her backdoor, when Richmond and Burke County Sheriff’s officers,
burst through that door, looking for a suspected drug dealer. Treat says she thought her family’s lives were in danger, she thought
the officers were there to help, but she knew that wasn’t the case,
when she says at, gun point, the police ordered her, her pregnant
daughter, and her 3 year old granddaughter, to get on the floor. “Two officers were standing over the top of me with guns.” says Treat. She says the officers searched her house for almost an hour, she says
cussing, and calling her a liar, before realizing they had the wrong
address. The house they were looking for was two doors down. “I’ve never done anything wrong. I’ve had one speeding ticket in my life.” She says now days after the raid, she is having trouble sleeping, and
her granddaughter is having nightmares. Even worse she says, NO ONE has
even apologized. “I stood here, in my own home, this is my safe place, this is my
granddaughter’s safe place, and my daughter’s, and all at once when they
bust in, they take that away.” says Treat...more
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