Cops raid wrong Brooklyn home...50 times

[rfranklin]

Cops: Computer glitch led to wrong address
NYPD apologizes for 50 door-pounding visits to home of elderly couple
The Associated Press
updated 1:45 p.m. ET, Fri., March. 19, 2010
NEW YORK - A senior New York City police official apologized Friday for the 50 or so door-pounding visits police made to the home of a bewildered elderly couple.

It seems a glitch in computer records had led them over and over to Walter and Rose Martin's modest home in Brooklyn.

The most recent intrusion came Tuesday, with officers pounding on both the front and back doors, yelling "Police, open up!"

On Thursday, detectives from the NYPD's Identity Theft Squad went to see the Martins again — this time to apologize. "And we wanted to be sure perps weren't using that address for identity theft," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told The Associated Press on Friday.

The detectives told 82-year-old Rose and 83-year-old Walter that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly had ordered them to solve the problem, which had gone on for at least four years and was reported this week in the New York Daily News.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35950730/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[RagAss]

1. I hope they're leaving donuts out on the kitchen table !

[Echo In Light]

5. .

[Joanne98]

2. No shit

[Renew Deal]

3. I'm sure they're guilty of something, otherwise the cops wouldn't be there.

:evilgrin:

[jberryhill]

7. They should get a bill from the PD for all that time they keep wasting

I agree, this couple ought to 'fess up and be done with it.

[demosincebirth]

4. Four years?? I think they might have a little compensation coming

[cutlassmama]

6. so, because it was reported in the news the Commisioner ordered

the police to make nice, nice with the elderly couple. Taking bets that it will still happen.