(UPDATE VIDEO 2/22/20: https://youtu.be/RpA1eQMrTBI)
(Edited 1/27/20: That local news channel made me take down the ending with their clip in it……so you’ll have to use your imagination. Think Reno 911, SEU edition.)
The Putnam County WV Sheriff’s Department showed up at my client’s house in August of 2019, purportedly to serve a civil lawsuit summons, but with nobody home, apparently climbed through the window and searched inside the house, pulling out the guy’s firearms, going through his drawers, looking under his mattress, and ransacking his house.
Apparently looking drugs, but finding none, they even seized his dead friend’s ashes and ran it through a field test kit for illegal drugs. When it came back negative, the man found bits and pieces of his dead friend’s bones inside the discarded kits, just thrown on the ground. He came home to find his firearms laid out on his stove, and elsewhere, and his place trashed, essentially.
They left no search warrant. There apparently was no search warrant. A FOIA request to the sheriff’s department revealed there are no records whatsoever from the incident. No search warrant, no police report, nothing. Here’s the state law on police officers executing search warrants:
§62-1A-4. Same — Execution and return with inventory.
The warrant may be executed and returned only within ten days after its date. The officer taking property under the warrant shall give to the person from whom or from whose premises the property is taken a copy of the warrant and a receipt for the property taken; or if the person from whose premises the property is taken is not present at the time, the officer shall leave the copy and receipt at the place from which the property is taken. The return shall be made promptly and shall be accompanied by a written inventory of any property taken. The judge or magistrate shall upon request deliver a copy of the inventory to the person from whom or from whose premises the property was taken.
This video hasn’t been seen anywhere else until now. We will be filing a federal lawsuit in the near future, and are seeking additional information and witnesses. Also other similar incidents, if you know of any.
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I never use this term for police but this is an ie. of a
P.I.G.
plain and simple
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Omg!! My mouth is literally in the floor!! I cant believe this actually happened!!
Was going to say tweedle dum and tweedle dee but their look alike brother has shown up too. All they need now is some gang tats to make them feel like a family
Looks like home broken into by a couple of armed gang members. Hate to think an armed homeowner would be forced to defend himself.
Police officers work details, where they're paid cash. If a department is sued, because of officers' actions, then the officers involved, should be forced to pay a certain percentage of the lawsuit.
Why were there no charges for burglary here?! They took the ashes, so it is beyond trespass and B&E. This is a felony. The only thing that would allow them to do it is a warrant, which they knew full well they didn't have. Imagine if the resident was home when they broke in. The cops would have likely won the gunbattle, and the murder they committed would have been covered up and the resident smeared.
Not the first time they’ve performed an illegal search, but the first time they got caught.
OMG, they desecrated his friend’s ashes. 😢
They are just mad someone knew how to handle their little games and make them stop 🛑 taking advantage of others and not getting caught !!!! Homelessness can be solved !
lol the people in charge are pissed off here lmao 😂 they are ignoring complaints for acting up oh well stop trying to fraudulently take what little people have
Wish the resident had remotely operated defense systems.
This is the type of thing you see when cops think you have drugs and they want them for themselves. They probably left those guns out as a warning that he better give them their cut.
UNBELIEVABLE!!! The GD nerve!!! 😡 🤬
This is insane! how often do you think it is happening though??
For some of you seeing a confederate flag, and finding that distasteful, I do too, …but that does not make this okay to search this persons home with out a warrant. This is what fascists do. This is so wrong on so many levels.
Straight up, they obviously all deserve to be fired for illegal behaviour, i.e. 'Break & Enter'.
Man, WV police agencies are so corrupt
Yeah… 'volunteers' like whom invaded my home.. they left a town letter on my bedroom door. 😬
that pig keeps itching his scalp cuz he nervous…nothing found… 😂
I need counsel please… I need help
oooh… wow
Take pictures of the guns so you can say it's a high risk arrest if you find drugs, then you can do a no-knock raid…
Im starting to think to have the privilege of carrying a gun & badge your IQ must be low, you have to be dirty and a really good liar, that seems to be your typical cop.
I guess they eat a lot of donuts in WV.
Power corrupts
Fucking THUGS! Looking for drugs to steal!
I walk into my home seeing two thugs like that, there would have been a shooting…
these fat, overweight porkers are a disgrace to law enforcement
One cop has lice keeps scratching his balding head
If those cops came in to the house unannounced, while the homeowner was in another room or asleep in bed, Then seeing 2 men in his house and being afraid for his could has shot and killed the 2 cops and not be convicted of murder. if they had found anything illegal it would be thrown out of court, because they didn't have a search warrant.
In a stand your ground state they would be shot
I support law enforcement, but these guys look like biker gang members and could've easily been shot. They should be prosecuted for B&E
What a bunch of inbred pus-monkeys. You easterners do different over there
I should have know that it's West Virginia again. The cops there are just like the cops of the Old South who believe they are the law, not law enforcement, but the law. Citizens there must make the correction or live like subjects of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Is W. Virginia nothing but a bunch of uneducated, hillbillies. Is that the reason they keep electing spineless Senator Joe Manchin? Do they have any self respect?
I'm considered a fast reader, but geez.
They look like thugs
This kind of BS needs to be prosecuted to the maximum. This wasn't the first time these AHs had done something like this!
sick copzis governed by copzis so no hope for punishment
Why would you even show the photo man, all the words were literally blocking all the view man dang
Came here from your latest video talking about the settlement. Holy crap this is scary!! 😮 F u c k those guys 🖕🏼
This reminds me of the FX TV series "The Shield"; a show about bad cops doing bad things under the color of law.
That is sooo scary!!!
BTW….I am surprised the field tests didn’t come back positive….everything else seems to test positive in them! IMO they are made to test positive so they can jam up people. I have seen all kids of stuff test positive…bird💩, plaster, baking soda, grass clippings, dirt, all kinds of material💯
TBH…I’m genuinely surprised hey didn’t try and plant something💯Glad this is now over and settled but he should’ve gotten +$1M!! ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS he had cameras inside…smart man! Went from being served an eviction to make them help pay for his mew house! They will never learn until they become personally liable for their actions and aren’t bailed out by a tax payer slush fund💯Well done sir! Hope you and your family have a GREAT Christmas and New Year 💯🙏