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Lawsuit: SWAT team, Armed & Famous crew broke into wrong home
THE STAR PRESS
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MUNCIE — The city’s SWAT team, along with celebrity cops and camera crews from Armed & Famous, broke into the wrong home during a search for two fugitives and kept an innocent woman handcuffed for 30 minutes, according to legal documents.
The woman, Lyndsay Clements, 22, has issued a notice of tort claim through her Indianapolis attorney, Michael K. Sutherlin. A tort claim is the first step toward suing a government agency and is required to give that agency warning of impending litigation.
The tort claim alleges that police entered Clements’s duplex, 826 1/2 W. Main St., around 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 12, 2007, while Clements was dressed in a nightgown and watching television alone.
During that time, various officers repeatedly interrogated Clements while she was handcuffed about the whereabouts of people named “Dustin and Jessica,” the claim said.
“Eventually, the officers realized that they were at the wrong apaprtment,” Sutherlin wrote.
Clements believes the actual target of the search was 626 1/2 W. Main St.
Footage of the incident appeared Jan. 11 on Armed & Famous, including scenes showing police staked outside Clements’s apartment, police rushing into her apartment and then someone in handcuffs with no explanation that would show the suspects were not caught at her apartment, the claim alleges.
Clements said La Toya Jackson and Jack Osbourne were involved.
THE STAR PRESS
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MUNCIE — The city’s SWAT team, along with celebrity cops and camera crews from Armed & Famous, broke into the wrong home during a search for two fugitives and kept an innocent woman handcuffed for 30 minutes, according to legal documents.
The woman, Lyndsay Clements, 22, has issued a notice of tort claim through her Indianapolis attorney, Michael K. Sutherlin. A tort claim is the first step toward suing a government agency and is required to give that agency warning of impending litigation.
The tort claim alleges that police entered Clements’s duplex, 826 1/2 W. Main St., around 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 12, 2007, while Clements was dressed in a nightgown and watching television alone.
During that time, various officers repeatedly interrogated Clements while she was handcuffed about the whereabouts of people named “Dustin and Jessica,” the claim said.
“Eventually, the officers realized that they were at the wrong apaprtment,” Sutherlin wrote.
Clements believes the actual target of the search was 626 1/2 W. Main St.
Footage of the incident appeared Jan. 11 on Armed & Famous, including scenes showing police staked outside Clements’s apartment, police rushing into her apartment and then someone in handcuffs with no explanation that would show the suspects were not caught at her apartment, the claim alleges.
Clements said La Toya Jackson and Jack Osbourne were involved.
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