Pima
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Read this one today.
http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door
The kicker is his wife is estranged and didn't even live there. I can't believe we are using SWAT for the DoE. What did they expect to gain from the search warrant using 1 patrol car compared to SWAT? How much did that just cost the taxpayer to do this? I bet close to the amount of outstanding debt that was owed to the DoE for the default on the loans. I also can't believe we are funding the DoE with a SWAT team, seriously, SWAT?
http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door
STOCKTON, CA - Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
"I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright said.
Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.
"He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there," Wright said. ...The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans.
"They busted down my door for this," Wright said. "It wasn't even me."
According to the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General, the case can't be discussed publicly until it is closed, but a spokesperson did confirm that the department did issue the search warrant at Wright's home.
The Office of the Inspector General has a law enforcement branch of federal agents that carry out search warrants and investigations.
The kicker is his wife is estranged and didn't even live there. I can't believe we are using SWAT for the DoE. What did they expect to gain from the search warrant using 1 patrol car compared to SWAT? How much did that just cost the taxpayer to do this? I bet close to the amount of outstanding debt that was owed to the DoE for the default on the loans. I also can't believe we are funding the DoE with a SWAT team, seriously, SWAT?