CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP) — The Drug Enforcement Administration has acknowledged to a Tennessee family that agents raided their house by mistake.
News outlets report DEA agents and the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office served a federal search warrant at the wrong home Tuesday in a raid that’s now under review by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Bureau spokesman Josh DeVine said the investigation is ongoing but it appears “deputies appear to have initially entered the wrong home.”
The father of four says a team busted through the front door, threw flash bangs, knocked pictures off walls, damaged the ceiling and burned holes through clothes and carpet.
Sheriff’s office spokesman James Bradford wouldn’t say if the Renck family would be compensated for the damage.
In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, the DEA called the situation “tragic.”
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