Sorry about the door, here’s $10,000
WBIR:
Dennis Smith and his wife, Kristie Dawn Smith, had just put their five-year-old son to bed in July 2002 when three men burst into their mobile home near Tazewell, demanding to know where the drugs were.
The demand was specific — 116 pounds of marijuana, methamphetamine and the Smith’s meth cookers.
They didn’t have any of it, as a search of their trailer showed.
The lawmen were at the wrong home, having taken the word of an informant and not verifying even who owned the cars in the driveway, according to court documents.
The proposed settlement will cost Claiborne County taxpayers $10,000.
You should have had a few more zeros added to the settlement.
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:32 pm
I’d have wanted more zeros and some badges. Be nice if they had to forfeit all the equipment and cars used in the raid as well.
For the child, of course.