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More than a year has gone by, and this story has been buried. Apparently no one has been charged with an offense in the SWAT raid. The mayor whose house was raided filed a lawsuit; but as usual, discovery will take years.

The sheriff is now up for re-election. Commentary from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03872.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

Mr. Calvo is escalating the pressure to get a federal investigation of this incident. It looks like he will succeed.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/ ... 9848.story
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/ ... 2304.story

- Jim

boomerang wrote:Why should the mayor get treated differently than the construction worker or the computer programmer?

He shouldn't, but I would expect law enforcement to know the name of the mayor. His name is Cheye Calvo. That's not quite like being named Fred Smith. Government officials attend a lot of events like emergency planning meetings together, and I'm thinking most of them know each other.

The fact that the sheriff's office did not coordinate with local police opened up the possibility that the resident could call 911 about a violent intrusion, and the local police could respond in a way that would make a lot of people unhappy.

- Jim

A SWAT team raided the home of the mayor of a small town in Maryland, shot the family's pet dogs, and handcuffed the occupants for about an hour.

The raid was triggered by a seized parcel of mail containing marijuana and addressed to the house. Apparently the drug smugglers would ship drugs to random addresses and intercept the parcels. (I would like to see a better explanation of that.)

The raid was conducted by the county sheriff's office and not coordinated with town police.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/ ... 3211.story

This is scary stuff, people. It could happen to anyone.

- Jim