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Indiana police SWAT wrong home over open wifi network

• http://www.rawstory.com, By Stephen C. Webster
 

An unsecured wifi network triggered a SWAT team raid on the wrong home in Evansville, Indiana last week after officers began investigating specific threats made in an online forum.

As it turns out, nobody inside the home made those threats, which apparently came from someone who simply accessed their network. But that didn’t stop police from gearing up for the raid blocks away and inviting a local reporter and cameraman to tag along.

In the video aired later by Evansville’s Eyewitness News, police can be seen throwing multiple flashbang grenades into the family home, where 18-year-old Stephanie Milan was reportedly watching The Food Network and lounging on the couch, then smashing their screen door before charging in.
 
Neither Milan nor her immediate family members had criminal records, but police said that their records indicated at least one member of their extended family did. They have all since been cleared without charges, and not a single one of them was ultimately arrested at the scene

2 Comments in Response to

Comment by brag
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Security threats are always bad, and a bad house is always a wrong house, this the SWAT Team can NEVER be wrong.

Comment by Powell Gammill
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put up the real story:

Evansville SWAT Team Responds to Online Threats, Raids the Wrong House