SWAT hit on wrong house update

[LVSteve]

Good news, Las Vegas Metro have stepped up and said they will pay for the repairs to the house they trashed looking for a suspect. Recall that the guy had sold the home five years ago. Damage is estimated to be a minimum of $25k, including destroying the garage door and just about every entryway into the home. Whether closer examination will reveal more serious structural damage remains to be seen.

Still waiting for comment from the judge who signed off on the warrants.

Even better news, the warrants at the other addresses netted several suspects, and over all the operation uncovered how a prostitution and trafficking ring rotated the girls in and out in short order to cover the activities.

Police report details Las Vegas brothel probe tied to SWAT raid at wrong home

Further details into LVMPD’s investigation have revealed three separate suspects have been arrested after being accused of operating an illegal brothel.

news3lv.com

 

[Doug M.]

The information as to ownership being that stale does not speak well of the quality of work. It is likely not only a pretty severe discipline issue, but a Brady/Giglio issue.

 

[326MOD10]

The information as to ownership being that stale does not speak well of the quality of work. It is likely not only a pretty severe discipline issue, but a Brady/Giglio issue.

Hard to say with such little info provided what happened to screw up.
Brady/Giglio addresses crimes and lies but not sure how it deals with lazy, incompetence or screw ups. And without more info not sure which this is.

Could be a training issue.

Glad to see the city is taking care of it without putting the owner through any more drama.
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Where I worked had a young narc officer mess up the house numbers on a warrant. Family eating dinner when the door came down, if I recall correctly.

That young narc went on to become Chief. You never know what will happen.

 

[Doug M.]

One could make comments about the vetting process for command officers. And FWIW, my training here is that incompetence is enough for Brady/Giglio (what is called Potential Impeachment Disclosure) by the prosecutors association. WSP has had to be trained and re-trained on this; the screw it up on the regular.

 

[Autonomous]

It took a Youtube video from a civil rights guy to get the dirty department to come clean if it's the case I'm thinking of.

 

[DixieRanger]

Thinkin' owner was not home or woulda been DRT.

 

[LVSteve]

Thinkin' owner was not home or woulda been DRT.

Yes, she was away. Her security system alerted her to movement at the front of the home. She connected to her cameras and they recorded the SWAT vehicle with the big arm setting up to attack the garage door. After that it all went blank when her cameras were shot out by some means. The News3LV youtube page may still show it, as well as the broken cameras when all was done.

There is little excuse for the address data being five years off. A simple search on the Clark County website will give you the sale record of any home for free.

 

[65-2x2]

That would have gotten me killed. Knowing that I have no problems with the law, if someone blew down my door it would be a gunfight.

 

[326MOD10]

One could make comments about the vetting process for command officers. And FWIW, my training here is that incompetence is enough for Brady/Giglio (what is called Potential Impeachment Disclosure) by the prosecutors association. WSP has had to be trained and re-trained on this; the screw it up on the regular.

Well some folks make mistakes and can't always be as perfect as others.

Guy was actually a really good cop who just made a mistake and paid for it. But shouldn't scar him for life.

Having worked on lots of discipline matters through the FOP I never saw a Giglio issue due to making a mistake. But your experiences may be different.

It is how the mistake is handled that leads to the Giglio issues.

Based off some of the comments there could be a little more to this situation but I am not sure.

 

[Glenn R. McMannly]

It happens.

It's a sad fact of societal life these days that these criminals force our lawmen into these scenarios.

Friendly fire happens in war and these days the streets might as well be a war zone. That doesn't mean you should hate the soldiers for just doing they're job (in this case, policemen).

 

[Ματθιας]

Tax payers should NOT be on the hook for the incompetence of folks who didn't do their job and check, triple check before going ahead. Folks should be fired and funds should be taken from the folks held responsible.

What am I saying! It's government, that'll never happen!

 

[LVSteve]

The information as to ownership being that stale does not speak well of the quality of work. It is likely not only a pretty severe discipline issue, but a Brady/Giglio issue.

I'm more inclined to think this is somebody got sloppy and didn't catch when the suspect was last known at the address. Whether that crosses the Brady/Giglio legal threshold for the case overall I cannot say.

 

[Rule3]

A brothel in LV? Say it isn't so!? That is such a heinous crime that they have to have a Military truck smash though the garage door and however they busted the front door down.? Just like to play with their equipment

Where were the social workers?

 

[Bullet Bob]

"It's a sad fact of societal life these days that these criminals force our lawmen into these scenarios."

Your statement resembles the terminal product of a male bovine's alimentary canal. Nobody forces you to be stupid.

 

[Crazywader]

Living in a house nearly 75 years old, I could use a few new doors. But this ain't the way to go about getting them

 

[Ματθιας]

Her's a video of the homeowners talking about what happened:

SWAT Team Arrives 5 Years Too Late, Causes 20K Worth of Damage, Then Refuses to Pay

 

[Ματθιας]

Here's the update video, LVSteve posted about;

 

[Eddietruett]

The information as to ownership being that stale does not speak well of the quality of work. It is likely not only a pretty severe discipline issue, but a Brady/Giglio issue.

Certainly not taking the side of the cops, but I can see how tracking ownership could easily be a problem. I am in the home improvement business and getting a permit can be a nightmare due to the extremely slow updating of property records. With computers you would think records would be updated fairly quick, but numerous times I've had problems with records being several years behind

 

[biku324]

We sent a team to a house, one of several, during a raid to arrest 70 street-level drug dealers. At one address, the arrest team knocked on the door and found an 80 year-old woman who spoke only Spanish - thankfully, the teams were comprised of four officers, one of whom was a Border Patrol agent. After finding out the lady lived alone, they asked if she knew the defendant - it was her grandson. Narcs had video of him selling cocaine from the front porch on 5 separate occasions - the lady truly had no clue.

Some people suck.

 

[LVSteve]

Certainly not taking the side of the cops, but I can see how tracking ownership could easily be a problem. I am in the home improvement business and getting a permit can be a nightmare due to the extremely slow updating of property records. With computers you would think records would be updated fairly quick, but numerous times I've had problems with records being several years behind

Not in this county. Property records here are kept with a ruthless efficiency that would make a Panzer commander wince. When you are still building a city from scratch on land that has no former title other than the Federal Government/BLM, you can get a tight grip on property records from the gitgo. Having to dig back through ancient records to find out who owns what and how it was surveyed is a rare event in Southern Nevada.

What goes on up near Virginia City and the like I have no idea.