"The snafu is probably explained by the fact that Ruiz used to live just a few doors down from Guerrero in the same building, according to his lawyer."

The snafu is probably explained by the fact that they may share the same country of origin, according to the DEA.

I hope they sue everyone that was involved in this and get a nice settlement.

and as they were leaving Brazil started playing... "Braziiiil! where hearts were entertaining juuuune

We stood beneath an amber mooooon

And softly murmured "someday soooon"

Yeah, imagine if her last name was Tuttle (or Buttle).

Oh bh, sometimes I really love you.

And Central Services will be by to fix that leaky faucet...

excellent way notifying all other possible suspects of police activity.

You see this is a simple misunderstanding. Ruiz lived in apartment 2, while Guerrero lived in apartment 12. No cop has ever completed the first grade where you would learn how to distinguish numbers, so this sort of thing was bound to happen.

And they didn't rob her. Give 'em that?

Didn't this exact same thing happen in Washington Heights a couple months ago? I think it was posted here then too.

Same thing...suspected gang member, drug raid, wrong apartment, former address, etc.

Note to self: don't move into any apartment that may have at one time been the residence of a criminal.

Good idea.

I'm withdrawing my bid for the Madoff penthouse.

N.W.A. tried to warn y'all years ago......but did you listen!?

Something similar happened to me at 4 am in the morning before college graduation. Dozens of cops, guns drawn, raided our house kicking down doors along the way. A couple housemates got thrown against the wall by the cops. But there actually was a fugitive drug dealer in the house, who was running from the cops and had broken into our spooky old house to hide. An exciting way to end my college career.

This type of incident makes me so sick. These poor women were demened and traumatized by people with great power and responsibility, who our society builds up to be HEROS, but in fact are keystone cowboys.

This happens all over the country with complete impunity.

These women are lucky they don't own a chihuahua because it would have been summarily executed.

What if the daughter came out of her room holding a black hair dryer, these trigger happy cowboys might have shot her.

This blog,

http://www.theagitator.com

is full of incidents like this where the outcome is often death for the resident or their pets, and the police get away with this again and again.

Why can't someone doudle check the address make sure the apartment number is correct before they knock down a door. Seriously, they have access to records I presume, maybe call the landlord and ASK A SIMPLE FUCKING QUESTION "Who lives in that Apt?". Maybe they could send an undercover posing as deliverman to knock on the door first, I don't know, ANYTHING.

And why is destroying the place part of an ivestigation? Doesn't it make more sense to carefully pick through the contents of a room so as not to destroy evidence? They just want to intimidate and humiliate people.

Sadly our politicians are too chickenshit to speakout about this unfettered police state, but if this type of thing (including all the other types of brutality and corruption perpetrated by law enforcement) continues to go unpunished, the citizenry will become so distrustful of the police that all the good cops out there won't be able to do their jobs.

They look like hoarders anyway. These agents did them a favor by exposing them as such. The landlord should evict them for having that much shit in one apartment...

whitecastlerock: I got a good chuckle from your harsh comment. The photo is from the television series Reno 911 -- a comedy/faux reality show. Maybe Neecy Nash and the other cast members of the show should be evicted.

Benny in SF, I believe he's referring to the photo in the original article, which is linked in the Blog post. It's Mother and Daughter posed in their living room. My first reaction was "Either they belong on an episode of Hoarders" or someone decided to "punch up" the background to garner more sympathy.

Check it out.

Police laziness is the main reason these things go wrong and sometimes deadly. They get the legal paperwork, suitup with weapons and don't bother to check things out BEFORE smashing down the doors. Clearly these guys had no idea who was inside and put their own lives in danger as well.

That's what I was thinking - aren't they supposed to have some idea what's going on inside someplace before they bust in? Like, watching the door, etc etc? No? Too much effort for our country's retarded drug war?

makes me glad they were Treasury agents who pounded on our door looking for someone. but then we were all awake because we work and go to school in the morning so 6AM is nothing. they were the nicest agents I've seen, don't even remember if they had guns drawn. looked around, under beds and left a business card.

This happens a lot more than you would expect.

Cops are not to blame - they must expect that they got a warrant against someone who is potentially dangerous.

The negligent twentysomething assistant DAs who listed the wrong apartment in the warrant application should be forced to clean the apartment up and then pay for the family to take a shopping spree.