From: Michael@KIELSKY.COM (Michael Kielsky)
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
Subject: SWAT team invades wrong house; 2 hurt
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:52:20 -0700


Quote from Deputy Police Chief: "Everything was done by procedure."
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-- Michael :-)



http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1672820

Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO -- Two people were injured when members of a San Antonio
police SWAT team searching for guns and drugs entered the wrong
apartment.

"We are sitting here and then all of them arrived," 20-year-old Salvador
Huerta said. Huerta and two cousins were watching television when police
shattered the back glass door Wednesday night.

"We were kicked and punched at least 20 times. I couldn't talk. I was
good and scared."

Salvador Huerta suffered a broken front tooth and swollen face. His
cousin, 19-year-old Marcos Huerta, was treated and released for a cut
face and bruised head.

After realizing they had the wrong address, police apologized to the
cousins and went to another apartment.

"Everything was done by procedure," Deputy Police Chief Rudy Gonzales in
Friday's editions of the San Antonio Express-News. "It was just an
honest mistake made by SWAT officers at the location."

Officials said the SWAT team members apparently were confused in the
darkness by the group of look-alike buildings.

Police plan to meet next week to review the series of events.

Salvador Huerta said at least 12 officers entered the apartment.

The men in the apartment thought they were being robbed.

The cousins said the door was shot out with soft bullets and a
concussion grenade was thrown inside, leaving a gaping hole and a black
scar on the wall.





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