Officers caught Wii bowling during drug bust

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Story: http://www.nbc-2.com/global/story.asp?s=11173624
Video: http://www2.tbo.com/video/2009/sep/21/polk-county-drug-bust-54649/



POLK COUNTY: In March, Polk County drug investigators raided the home of forty-three year old Michael Difalco near Lakeland, Florida.

Difalco has an extensive arrest record.

He's done time in state prison for trafficking drugs.

On this day, members of a multi department drug task force claim they discovered drugs, weapons and stolen property.

A security camera they missed, showed detectives also discovered a fun video game to play, Wii bowling.

And over the course of the next 9 hours, the game was on.

One detective bowled frame after frame after frame.

Practice makes perfect.

And while one female detective lifted a couch looking for drugs, another detective focused on pin action

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd calls the display embarrassing.

"How do you explain it? Well you can't explain that, my deputies know that they shouldn't have been playing Wii while they were involved in that search warrant."

Detectives from the Sheriff's office, Winter Haven, Auburndale and Lakeland police department's all participated in the raid, and all caught on camera.

Judd says it was the supervisors who are at fault.

"That doesn't please me what pleases me less is the supervision that didn't say turn the television off."

Instead of ordering the video game and television turned off, this supervisor from Lakeland PD joined the fun.

Defense attorney Rick Escobar watched a sampling of the drug raid video

"I've never seen anything like this. I find this very offensive. Shocking embarrassing I'm sure that the department is extremely embarrassed by this behavior. "

Records show 16 detectives spent 9 hours searching Difalco's property, the cost to taxpayers $4,000.

Escobar thinks this will not look good to the public.

"All the citizens are thinking wait a minute we are paying these people to go out and protect us and here they are playing bowling on our time."

The sheriff argues there is always down time during searches, no tax dollars were wasted.

"The nature of a search warrant is hurry up and wait it just is, am i trying to defend the fact that they were bowling not at all, that was inappropriate."

The sheriff claims he launched an internal administrative investigation, and will wait for a final report before he decides if anyone will face discipline.

"It's an embarrassment to the detectives involved and its an embarrassment to the organization but you know what we employee 1800 people and not one of them is perfect we all make mistakes. They made a mistake."
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Disgusting. The jack boots raid the guy's house and then make themselves at home with the guy's entertainment system. Cops are just criminals with immunity.
 
shows what we pay these people for, the only reason its an issue is because they were caught but i'm sure this happens all the time and things similar to this as well and they wouldn't give a shit but now, its like the vid of the police planting weed on the guy, they obviously did it all the time.

pathetic police
 
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Hops said:
shows what we pay these people for, the only reason its an issue is because they were caught but i'm sure this happens all the time and things similar to this as well and they wouldn't give a shit but now, its like the vid of the police planting weed on the guy, they obviously did it all the time.

pathetic police
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I dunno how accurate lie detector tests are or anything, but they should subject police officers to it, if a suspect is adament about something being planted.
 
Its incredible how low the standard of good behavior is for police officers.

Some cops in my city were caught on tape beating the shit out of a handcuffed homeless man who's only crime was sleeping in public. They were given a suspension, their names were not released. If the situation was reversed (hobo beating up incapacitated cops) there would have been hell to pay.

Cops are just criminals with immunity.
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qft
 
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