What the

[Tazman]

It's not just the crooks.
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Chainsaw-Wielding FBI Team Busts Into Wrong Home
By Teke Wiggin | Posted Feb 1st 2012 12:35PM

A woman reportedly awoke to the wailing of a chainsaw as it ripped through her front door in Fitchburg, Mass., on Thursday.

But, contrary to how the event might have appeared to some horror flick buffs, the culprit was not a villainous intruder set on wreaking unspeakable havoc. It was the FBI.

"It was so crazy," Judy Sanchez told the Sentinel & Enterprise newspaper in Fitchburg. "I was terrified."

Attempting to carry out a drug raid, about 10 agents burst through Judy Sanchez's door wielding the saw. They intended on arresting a suspected cocaine dealer, the newspaper said.

But they failed miserably: The apartment unit they should have entered was 2F. Sanchez and her daughter live in 2R.
After breaking in, the agents reportedly aimed their weapons and yelled for Sanchez to get on the floor, then ordered her to get a hold of her startled 3-month-old pit bull, which had just urinated.

When the agents discovered that they were in the wrong apartment, they seemed embarrassed, Sanchez said. They then moved on to arrest the actual suspect, who lives next door. The blunder came at the end of a two-year investigation into gang activity, gun sales and drug trafficking, the Sentinel & Enterprise said.

The FBI has since apologized and is paying for the damage to Sanchez's home, The Associated Press reported.

Some may find it hard to fathom how such a carefully planned operation could go so awry. But in the world of law enforcement screw-ups, stranger things have happened.

Assisting Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who calls himself "America's toughest sheriff," in a real-life raid, action hero Steven Seagal once rode a tank into the house of an Arizona man suspected of cockfighting. As far as pets go, they weren't as lucky in this case as Sanchez's pit bull: In this crackdown on animal cruelty, a puppy was killed along with several roosters.

It's a good thing her puppy just peed. If it had barked, they probably would have shot it.

[Fox]

An expert in our office was searching latents on NAFIS a found a beautiful full right palm (I mean the whole hand) with a magnificent outward nose loop in the right hypothena. This person we shall call John put a small search box around the loop pattern part of the outward nose loop. John then rotated the box so it resembled a loop pattern (of sorts) and searched it all ten fingers with unknown pattern type - what the? John has applied to SCRO for a job!

[Bill Schade]

I saw a similar example of this years ago (pre AFIS)
Latent on a big case was a clear right palm. One of my coworkers was going through the palm files card by card looking for a match and after checking the stack on known right palms, he turns the cards over and begins checking the left hands.
"what are you doing?" exclaims the supervisor in disbelief

"just want to be sure" replies my buddy

I think he is now working as a research "scientist" in academia

[Neville]

Hi Fox
But IF he had got a hit just think of the outcome you could have closed shop turn on the Auto AFIS Hit software and present the evidence in court with statistics. This could all be done on line without human intervension. WOW think of the savings, CIB would be happy, the Scientists would be happy, the bosses would be happy, the defence council would be happy; it is a win win situation. What the! but what about Rudd? has the worm turned.