FBI Uses Chainsaw In Raid On Wrong Fitchburg Apartment

**Big Pimpin** · 02-01-2012, 02:43 PM

FBI Uses Chainsaw In Raid On Wrong Fitchburg Apartment « CBS Boston

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.

“I was told not to move, so I didn’t move,” she tells WBZ, out of fear that she’d be shot.

Eventually the feds figured out they were in the wrong spot and they arrested the suspect they were after in the next door apartment.

Sanchez can’t believe that a two-year long federal investigation ended at the wrong door.

“The looks on their faces when they knew they got the wrong door was priceless,” she recalls. “They looked at each other dumbfounded.”

Sanchez says another agent came by later that day to offer an apology, but it was one that Sanchez felt wasn’t quite genuine.

“For me it felt routine apology, it felt like just a regular, ‘I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Here’s the phone number for your landlord to get reimbursed for the door, have a good day.’

And that’s how I felt, like it was a smack in the face.”

**jagbender** · 02-01-2012, 02:47 PM

Nice

**secdrl** · 02-01-2012, 02:54 PM

I wonder how much cash the Feds will end up paying her for this "misunderstanding"

**SFW** · 02-01-2012, 03:01 PM

Best part is the guy in 2F probably heard the whole thing and flushed his stash before they got there.

**REDDOG309** · 02-01-2012, 03:03 PM

Was this silverbacks grandmoms house?

**SloppyJ** · 02-01-2012, 03:11 PM

heard clicking of guns after they kicked down the door?

Don't know about the FBI but I'd bust the door down cocked and locked.

**Prince** · 02-01-2012, 03:14 PM

fucking morons!

**~RaZr~** · 02-01-2012, 03:18 PM

Can you imagine if she had a heart attack or some crazy shit and died?!

**maniclion** · 02-01-2012, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by SloppyJ

heard clicking of guns after they kicked down the door?

Don't know about the FBI but I'd bust the door down cocked and locked.

Clicking of the safety releases, that way you don't accidentally put a round in the guys ass in front of you...

**Dark Geared God** · 02-01-2012, 10:20 PM

**OfficerFarva** · 02-01-2012, 10:22 PM

This is her door now lol

http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2012/...itchburg-home/

**secdrl** · 02-02-2012, 01:43 AM

Originally Posted by maniclion

Clicking of the safety releases, that way you don't accidentally put a round in the guys ass in front of you...

There are no safetys on their department issued Glock 22's.

**GEZA** · 02-11-2012, 11:37 AM

right

**Prince** · 02-11-2012, 12:06 PM

So hypothetically speaking of course, if you were sitting in your living room and the Feds started going at your door with a chainsaw as in this case, and you just happened to have a shotgun on hand and fired a few rounds right at the door and blew their fucking heads off would you be in any legal trouble, or would that follow under the "Make My Day Law"?

**Little Wing** · 02-11-2012, 01:01 PM

seems like you'd be within your rights doesn't it?

**Prince** · 02-11-2012, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Little Wing

seems like you'd be within your rights doesn't it?

I would think so especially since they were raiding the wrong apartment.

**tommygunz** · 02-11-2012, 01:10 PM

If I saw a chainsaw coming through my front door, I'd panic and think it was CellarDoor and

like hell holding my hands over my back door.

**Prince** · 02-11-2012, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by OfficerFarva

This is her door now lol

Chainsaw-Wielding FBI Team Busts Into Wrong Home | AOL Real Estate

The FBI has since apologized and is paying for the damage to Sanchez's home, The Associated Press reported.

Fuck that she needs to be paid for emotional distress, I say $100k.

**OfficerFarva** · 02-11-2012, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by tommygunz

If I saw a chainsaw coming through my front door, I'd panic and think it was CellarDoor and

like hell holding my hands over my back door.

Liar, you'd run to the bedroom and grab your lube in anticipation of whats coming.

**tommygunz** · 02-11-2012, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by OfficerFarva

Liar, you'd run to the bedroom and grab your lube in anticipation of whats coming.

**KelJu** · 02-11-2012, 01:24 PM

This happens a lot. At least they didn't shoot the family pet this time like they usually do.

**~RaZr~** · 02-11-2012, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by KelJu

This happens a lot. At least they didn't shoot the family pet this time like they usually do.

Man I remember reading about that and hearing it on a recorded phone call IIRC. That was some sad shit....

**Curt James** · 02-11-2012, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by Prince

and you just happened to have a shotgun on hand and fired a few rounds right at the door and blew their fucking heads off would you be in any legal trouble

You'd have the moral advantage, imo. Maybe that's not the right word. But you'd definitely be making sense from my perspective. Chainsaw starts ripping through my front door? I'd start shooting.

Or looking for a clear exit.

The question I have is what do you do with the rest of the BATF or SWAT who open fire on your *** after their compatriots go down hard with red mist where their heads used to be?

Shooting at that chainsaw would give them all the incentive to return fire without mercy or asking questions.

Originally Posted by Prince

The FBI has since apologized and is paying for the damage to Sanchez's home, The Associated Press reported.

Fuck that she needs to be paid for emotional distress, I say $100k.

Double this.

Sanchez should definitely receive more than reimbursement for a damaged door. FBI =

**Curt James** · 02-11-2012, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by KelJu

This happens a lot. At least they didn't shoot the family pet this time like they usually do.

Just Google "cop shoots dog". Wtf?

**min0 lee** · 02-12-2012, 06:52 AM

**GeorgeForemanRules** · 02-12-2012, 07:03 AM

NO doubt she was an illegal Mexican, so I don't really feel sorry for her.

**fitter420** · 02-12-2012, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by KelJu

This happens a lot. At least they didn't shoot the family pet this time like they usually do.

Thats where I thought story was going

**Haitiansensation** · 02-12-2012, 09:58 AM

why the fuck would they use a chainsaw any way? dont they have batterring rams or something. hope she claims post traumatic stress syndrom and sues the shit out of those dumbfucks.

**Prince** · 02-12-2012, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Haitiansensation

hope she claims post traumatic stress syndrom and sues the shit out of those dumbfucks.

x2

**Zaphod** · 02-12-2012, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Prince

So hypothetically speaking of course, if you were sitting in your living room and the Feds started going at your door with a chainsaw as in this case, and you just happened to have a shotgun on hand and fired a few rounds right at the door and blew their fucking heads off would you be in any legal trouble, or would that follow under the "Make My Day Law"?

Probably depends on which state you live in. If they don't identify themselves it's at their own risk.

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