SWAT Team Storms Wrong House

By Matt Liebowitz, SECURITY NEWS DAILY and MSNBC

SWAT Team Storms Wrong House

June 29, 2012 Updated Jun 29, 2012 at 2:47 PM PDT

Imagine you're sitting at home, comfortable on the couch, watching the Food Network, when all of a sudden a heavily armed SWAT team breaks down your door and storms into your living room.

That's what happened to 18-year-old Stephanie Milan, who was watching TV in her family's Evansville, Ind., home last Thursday (June 22), when a team of police officers broke down her storm door — the front door was already open — and tossed a flash-bang stun grenade into the room.

"The front door was open," Ira Milan, Stephanie's grandfather and the property owner, told the Evansvile Courier & Press. "To bring a whole SWAT team seems a little excessive."

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