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 | | Subject: The cops are on their way to Temples house! Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:14 am | |
| Report: Elderly Couple's Low Electric Bill Earned Them a Battering Ram to the Door September 15, 2022The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department was forced to settle with a Lake Elsinore, California, couple after raiding both of their homes without warrants.
Sheriff’s deputies allegedly smashed in the doors of the two homes on Aug. 5, 2021, on suspicion that the elderly couple was growing marijuana based on their low consumption of electricity.
“The deputies believed the defendants were stealing power to grow marijuana because their power consumption was low, and they said as much,” their attorney, Alex Coolman, told the local newspaper.
The couple was identified by the newspaper as Chen-Chen Hwang, 67, and her husband, Jiun-Tsong Wu, 75. Their complaint stated that “deputies used a battering ram to break down the side door of the couple’s first house in a quiet subdivision of Lake Elsinore,” according to The Press-Enterprise.
“This was a very strange and frightening incident,” Hwang said in a news release from Coolman’s office. “We did nothing to deserve this, and it made us feel unsafe in our own homes.”
According to the news release, after the initial search at the first home, the officers turned their attention to the couple’s second house where Hwang was home alone. Hwang and Wu alleged in the suit that the deputies broke down “multiple doors inside” and spent several hours searching the couple’s homes and “rummaging through the couple’s belongings”
“The operation found no evidence of a crime,” Coolman said in the release. “Deputies were interested in the couple’s low electricity consumption, which some law enforcement agencies believe is linked to illegal marijuana growing.”
The retired couple is “thrifty” and utilizes solar panels to reduce their electricity consumption, according to their lawyer.https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/elderly-couples-low-electric-bill-earned-battering-ram-door-armed-police |
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