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NEW YORK — Police raided the wrong house, handcuffed an innocent family, and then put their pictures on Snapchat with a Christmas “greeting.” “Merry Christmas it’s NYPD (New York Police Department)” one of the captions accompanying a picture of the ...

  GILLETTE, Wyoming — Agents from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are being accused of raiding and shutting down a farmer’s market in Gillette, Wyoming. Three federal agents last month made vendor John Thompson dump the chili he ...

KATY, Texas — Buying raw milk can now lead to a police raid in Texas. At least two raw milk transactions have been broken up by officers and health inspectors in the Lone Star State in the past few months. ...

  A sheriff’s deputy may have been killed during a nighttime raid in Indiana over a syringe. To compound the tragedy, another deputy was injured and a suspect died during the incident. Deputy Carl A. Koontz was shot while trying ...

SWAT teams have become a weapon that anyone — including sociopaths — can deploy against innocent law-abiding citizens. In a growing-but-disturbing practice called “swatting,” a bad guy places a false 911 call to police designed to provoke a SWAT-team raid ...

A single mother would like to know why a SWAT team drove an armored vehicle through her fence, ransacked her 6-year-old son’s bedroom and did an estimated $10,000 worth of damage to her home – all while she was gone. ...

Simply talking about secession and voicing unpopular political opinions apparently can be a crime in Texas. Members of a group called the Republic of Texas learned that the hard way when heavily armed Texas Rangers, FBI agents and sheriff’s deputies ...

Not having proper security on your Wi-Fi router can lead to a SWAT team raid on your house, as one family in Evansville, Indiana, discovered. Louise Milan learned this the hard way when SWAT officers smashed through her door and ...

A Florida woman claims the Department of Homeland Security forced her to strip naked and then handcuffed her during a no-knock raid at dawn that turned up nothing and left them wondering the purpose behind the invasion. According to Kari ...

Even though James E. Jordan Sr. died more than eight years ago, he is still one of the most wanted men in New York City. Police keep raiding the Brooklyn apartment of Jordan’s widow and harassing his family in attempts ...