FBI Uses Chainsaw In Raid On Wrong Fitchburg Apartment

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FITCHBURG (CBS) – It’s going to be a while before things get back to normal for Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter.

Last Thursday, a team of FBI agents swarmed her apartment building as part of a massive citywide drug and weapons gang raid.

Trouble is, Sanchez lives in apartment 2R.

The suspect they were after is in 2F.

At 6:04 last Thursday morning, just before Sanchez’ alarm was set to go off, she heard a pounding outside her second floor apartment.

“I just happened to glance over and saw this huge chainsaw ripping down the side of my door,” she explains. “And I was freaking out. I didn’t know what was going on.”

Within moments, the chainsaw had cut through most of her door, and someone on the FBI’s arrest team kicked the rest of it in.

“That’s when I heard the clicking of a gun and I heard ‘FBI, get down!’, so I laid right on down.

And they said get your dog, so I got her and at the same time I am laying in her urine because she did pee on herself at the same time.”

That dog is the family’s three-month-old pit bull puppy.

Sanchez says they left her on the floor for 35 minutes, with her daughter screaming for her mommy in the other room.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/31/fbi-uses-chainsaw-in-raid-on-wrong-fitchburg-apartment/

 

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from the comments section:

Imagine if that had been my house! I would have put five rounds from my S&W 38 through the door without even thinking about it as the chainsaw touched my door. Then I would have grabbed my Garrand and sent eight more 30.06 rounds their way.
They better get the address right in my neighborhood.

That’s right, since no one uses a chainsaw to break down a door. I would have put several 12ga slugs into them.

No… I wouldnt be shot dead. Some of us are HIGHLY trained, former Military, and Police. I PROMISE you not one man would make it into my house alive, I would be just fine, and we would eventually sort it all out. It will only take this scenario happening ONCE, and things will change. They just havent kicked in the “wrong” door yet.

If someone, anyone, does this to me then 8 +P 200 gr .45acp rounds are going THROUGH the door into whomever is wielding said chansaw. Whether it be some government agency, Jason Voorhees, or God himself. This is a threatening action and I would be JUSTIFIED in reacting to such actions with force. But i’m not going to roll over for some chance that it might be the gubment.

Umm… If somebody tried to come in with a chainsaw (as mentioned, this isn’t standard) They’d get at least 5 rounds of 7.62x54r rounds… and I know body armor can’t stop those. They would not be having a good day.

Yep, 12 guage with bird shot at my place. It would have been coming thru the door.

Would’ve been a bunch of dead FBI agents had they did that to my house. I see a chain saw coming through my door??? I’m shooting first and asking questions later. Only problem is, once you kill one of those idiots, even in self-defense, they’re not going to stop until you’re dead. Be that as it may, I’ll go down fighting.

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

Let's face it, the feds are usually better armed than the people they're raiding. I'm sure the suspect in the right apartment was armed...but of course they raided the wrong apartment.

Idiots.

 

[PoppyLlama]

the feds suck balls. fuck you all.
they make mistakes like this all the time. traumatizing innocent people because of their (the officers) stupidity.

 

[xstayfadedx]

Wow, this better be a lawsuit in the making. I would of flipped shit..... Probably allowed the other guy to get away.

 

[botfly]

Fuck the drug war vote Ron Paul.

 

[skillet]

^ lol

I'd love to hear why they had to use a chainsaw. I guess to scare the shit out of everyone.

 

[Mercc96]

I think they were hoping to provoke a reaction from the suspected criminals that they were trying to arrest, because im sure they would have known that they would have most likely been armed and its not like using a chainsaw is an extremely fast or efficient method of entering a building.