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Title: Feeling 'Threatened' as They Broke Into the Home, Police Opened Fire
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Lew Rockwell
URL Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz91.html
Published: Aug 25, 2008
Author: Vin Suprynowicz
Post Date: 2008-08-25 06:41:08 by Ada
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Views: 243
Comments: 7
Cops in Prince George’s County, Maryland, have a proud tradition to maintain. In May, a former county officer was sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture delivery men at his home last year, one of them fatally. (He claims they attacked him.) In June, a suspect jailed in the death of a local police officer was found strangled in his cell. Authorities have no idea how that could have happened. It’s unlikely Mayor Cheye Calvo of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, was thinking of his county’s behaviorally challenged boys in beige when he got home from work on Tuesday July 29, saw a package addressed to his wife sitting on the front porch, and brought it inside, putting it on a table. But he should have been. The mayor went into the bedroom to change his clothes. He was wearing only his boxer shorts when cops with drawn guns kicked in the door and stormed in, screaming. They shot the couple’s two Labrador retrievers to death and seized the unopened package. Which contained about 30 pounds of marijuana. Police now admit the couple appear to have been the innocent victims of a scheme by two men to transport millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about half a dozen unsuspecting recipients. The two men under arrest include a FedEx delivery driver. Investigators say the scheme involved having the delivery man drop off a package outside a home where he believed no one would be home. An accomplice would then come by a short time later and swoop it up. A furious Mayor Calvo said last week that he and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the raid. “We were harmed by the very people who took an oath to protect us,” says Mr. Calvo, part-time mayor of the middle-class Washington suburb of about 3,000 people, who works at a nonprofit foundation that runs boarding schools. His wife is a state finance officer. Mr. Calvo insists the couple’s two black Labradors were gentle creatures. He says the cops apparently killed them “for sport,” gunning down one of them as it was running away. Neighbors say the dogs were so gentle they rarely even barked. “Our dogs were our children,” said the 37-year-old part-time mayor. “They were the reason we bought this house, because it had a big yard for them to run in.” The mayor says he was handcuffed in his boxer shorts for about two hours along with his mother-in-law, and that officers didn’t believe him when he told them he was the mayor. Prince George’s County police Chief Melvin High defends the way the raid was conducted, saying the dogs were killed because the officers felt “threatened.” There’s a fresh excuse. One wonders if it might not be possible to recruit and train a few police officers who – suited up in bullet-resistant SWAT gear and brandishing loaded shotguns and assault rifles – could manage not to feel “threatened,” ALL the time. Alternatively, perhaps the officers would feel less “threatened” if they stopped breaking into people’s houses and handcuffing them in their underwear on suspicion of possessing 30 pounds of controlled vegetables. Police explain they’d been tracking the package that arrived on the Calvo-Tomsic porch – originally sent from Los Angeles – ever since it drew the attention of a drug-sniffing dog in Arizona. Police intercepted it in Maryland and an undercover detective posing as a FedEx driver took it to the Calvo-Tomsic home – which explains why the real driver’s accomplice was not waiting to swoop in and grab the goods, this time. The Berwyn Heights police chief says county officers had no right to enter the home without knocking. County goons reply their operation was compromised when Mr. Calvo’s mother-in-law saw officers approaching the house and screamed. That could have given someone time to grab a gun or destroy evidence – providing their excuse for breaking in, county cops explained. (Well, there you go: It was her own fault.) Mayor Calvo says he’s astonished that police have not only failed to apologize, but have also declined to clear the couple’s names. But that’s standard procedure, of course – holding the threat of prosecution over even the obviously innocent, to use as a bargaining chip should they feel motivated to file their own legal action. The mayor’s lucky his home and bank accounts haven’t been seized. Does anyone else sense a lack of proportionality, here? The customers who would have consumed that 30 pounds of hemp will eventually get their dope, somewhere else. Whereupon, stoned, they are highly unlikely to commit the kind of life-threatening mayhem in which the Prince George’s County narc squad indulged on July 29. It’s only government agents who can engage with impunity in that kind of violence and terror. Is there anyone who still doubts this blank check for murder and mayhem known as the “War on Drugs” has gone too far? At the very least, any dogs belonging to those shooters should be taken away and offered for adoption into the homes of non-dog-killers. As for the officer’s children, let’s not be extreme: Perhaps it would be enough for Child Welfare workers to stop by their homes unannounced, once a month for the next few years … just to check. After all, who knows when these violent men will next feel “threatened”?
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Thanks for posting this, aside from it being a great article, for two reasons. Alternatively, perhaps the officers would feel less “threatened” if they stopped breaking into people’s houses and handcuffing them in their underwear on suspicion of possessing 30 pounds of controlled vegetables. In neighboring DC last week, they broke into a quite heavy, middle-aged black woman's home, pointed a gun at her (son?), told him to lie on the floor or they were going to shoot him, ordered her, who was totally NAKED, to get out of bed and also lie on the floor. She asked to at least put something on, and they wouldn't let her. They of course found nothing and no one was charged. She was still shaken up and crying real tears when she was interviewed by the news team. I hope she sues and bankrupts them. The second reason, is, I didn't hear or see about the following; maybe I missed it, but I was reading an old newspaper, and noticed a blurb about this mayor being "known for his opposition to the driver's license provisions of the REAL ID Act and his extensive writings on genetics policy and privacy." I just did a brief search. First, from the article, and the way I remember reading how the event transpired: Police now admit the couple appear to have been the innocent victims of a scheme by two men to transport millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about half a dozen unsuspecting recipients. The two men under arrest include a FedEx delivery driver. Investigators say the scheme involved having the delivery man drop off a package outside a home where he believed no one would be home. An accomplice would then come by a short time later and swoop it up. A furious Mayor Calvo said last week that he and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the raid. That's not the way it was first reported. From a forum: Md. mayor's dogs killed by SWAT after cops deliver pot Associated Press Published: Thursday July 31, 2008 BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. — A SWAT team raided the home of a Washington, D.C.-area mayor, killing his two black Labrador retrievers and seizing an unopened package of marijuana delivered there. Prince George's County Police said Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo brought a 32-pound package of marijuana into his home that had been delivered by officers posing as delivery men. The Tuesday evening raid was conducted by county police narcotics officers and a sheriff's office SWAT Team. The package was addressed to Calvo's wife, Trinity Tomsic. His mother-in-law had asked the supposed delivery men to leave the package outside. Calvo has not been charged, though police said he, his wife and his mother-in-law are "persons of interest" in an ongoing investigation. "We never opened the box. We have nothing to do with this box," Calvo said. Sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. Mario Ellis says deputies "apparently felt threatened" when they shot the dogs. Calvo said officers entered about 7:30 p.m., first shooting 7-year-old Payton. They then pursued 4-year-old Chase, who ran away and was shot by police from behind, he said. Calvo said he doesn't have any idea how the package ended up at his house. He called the raid "the most traumatic experience" of his life. Calvo, who called his town "Mayberry inside the Capital Beltway," gets a small stipend as mayor and works at the SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that runs public boarding schools for at-risk students. His wife works as a state finance officer. "These were two beautiful black Labradors who were well-known in the community. We walked them twice a day; little kids knew their names and would come up to them and pet them," he said. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/SW...kills_2_dogs_in_0731.html --- Sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. Mario Ellis says deputies "apparently felt threatened" when they shot the dogs. Calvo said officers entered about 7:30 p.m., first shooting 7-year-old Payton. They then pursued 4-year-old Chase, who ran away and was shot by police from behind, he said. ------- Originally Posted by flourbug package of marijuana ...had been delivered by officers posing as delivery men. [/url] Am I reading this right? Cops delivered a package and used the package they delivered as a reason to raid? Did they intercept the package from a regular deivery company? Did anyone at the house order the package? ------- LizB, that's exactly what happened. Now the police are saying they think the package might not have been intended for the Mayor's family, perhaps a deliveryman was going to pick it up instead. Here's a followup article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...8/01/AR2008080103223.html "Police had been tracking the package, which was addressed to Calvo's wife, since a police dog at a shipping facility in Arizona alerted authorities to the presence of drugs inside. It was delivered to Calvo's house by police posing as deliverymen and left on his porch at the instructions of his mother-in-law. After the raid, police recovered an unopened package containing more than 30 pounds of marijuana, but they made no arrests. The possibility that no one in Calvo's house was the intended recipient of the package is among several theories police are pursuing." What I found very interesting were some of the comments on the original article: This is exactly the sort of thing that caused me to move from P.G. County. I used to live in Greenbelt and we had it worse than the rest of the county because of the lawlessness of the Greenbelt City Police. If there ever was a place in the U.S. that mimicked Nazi Germany, it is Greenbelt, Maryland. I attended an inquiry over a police beating of a young resident in the town, which I witnessed. At the hearing they had a couple of other eyewitnesses whose testimony matched, but a third witness, a town business owner and good friend of the police, claimed he saw the incident and that there was no beating by the police. He claimed he saw the guy inflict the damage to himself by slamming his face into the side of the police car while he was handcuffed. After the hearing, I began receiving threatening anonymous phone calls, all from public pay phones in the Greenbelt - Berwyn area. When I called the Greenbelt police to report the calls, I was told that maybe I should mind my own business in the future when it comes to police business. A month later I put my house up for sale and moved to another county. --- war on drugs claims more innocents. No reason for the dogs to be shot. No reason for a swat team (it's just pot). This was most likely some kind of political hit, and the most innocent of all took the fall. I hope the officers who did the shooting have their weapons stripped. rubbish --- (from the same poster as directly above) me again...did a little digging on this one. I guess if you oppose the real ID act, your dogs get shot to teach you a lesson on speaking out: Cheye Calvo National Conference of State Legislatures Cheye (pronounced "shi") Calvo directs the National Conference of State Legislatures' (NCSL) transportation and financial services committees and represents state legislatures in our federal system of government on banking, insurance, securities and transportation issues. Cheye played a leading role in efforts to create state-friendly federal driver's license standards as part of the intelligence reform in December 2004 and more recently in opposing the driver's license provisions of the REAL ID Act. Cheye has spoken, testified and written extensively on a wide range of public policy matters, and has co-authored and co-edited studies on human genetics policy, genetic privacy, and auto insurance ratemaking. He also serves as the part-time, elected mayor of the Town of Berwyn Heights, Maryland. -------- What an easy way to set someone up for a bust. I am 61 years old. This crap has been going on for my entire life. Basically, Killing their dogs was the message. The cops don't have anything that will stand up in court. Killing his dogs was the exclamation point of the states power. Even if the trumped up case fails, the cops sent the message that they can screw with anybody at anytime. The mafia breaks your knee caps or threatens your families: the cops do this crap because they can. There are some severely disturbed persons in American Law enforcement! ------ Follow the name trail, Who was the commander who ordered the raid, who from the police were contacted by the post office, who from the post office contacted the police, who at the post office "discovered" the package. Put them all under oath in front of a grand jury. This wreaks of a set-up. ------- .....Berwyn Heights Mayor Targeted in Drug Raid http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/07....html?fntsize=3 posted 6:33 pm Wed July 30, 2008 - BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md The Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Md. was the target of a drug raid Wednesday after a package containing several pounds of marijuana was shipped to his home, according to police. Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo is still reeling after a team of heavily armed sheriff deputies burst into his home Wednesday. "It was an explosion followed immediately by gunfire," said Calvo. The deputies bound the mayor and fired shots, killing the Calvo's two black Labradors. Calvo tearfully expressed his love for his "good dogs" while showing ABC 7 reporter Brad Bell, exactly where they were shot by a Prince George's county sheriff. According to sources, the deputies armed with a warrant were acting on behalf of a drug squad for Prince George's County Police. Detectives had learned that a box containing more than 30 pounds of marijuana had been shipped from Arizona and was addressed to Calvo's wife at their Berwyn Heights address. After the Calvo's brought, unknowingly they claim, the package into their home Tuesday evening, the waiting officers moved in. The Calvo's said the box wasn't even opened when the officers stormed into their residence. When asked if he is a drug dealer, Calvo said, "Of course not!" The mayor said he has no idea where the marijuana came from. Neither Calvo, his wife nor her mother, who also lives in the home, have been arrested or charged with anything. Police said the investigation remains open. The Calvo's insisted the investigation shouldn't involve them, saying the event was very traumatic to deal with. "We have to heal," said Calvo. Email To A Friend ------- astrogirl, I smelled something funny when I read that the package was sniffed out by dogs in Arizona and then shipped across states and delivered 'by the police" in MD. IFAIK, interstate movement of contraband would have to involve federal drug enforcement agency agents, not local or state police. I believe procedure is to have the package sniffed out, seized, and opened under a warrant in Arizona. http://www.k9fleck.org/nlu10.htm A quick google search of "marijuana delivered by usps" turned up several cases that were dismissed or overturned on appeal because merely accepting delivery of a package does not indicate guilt, including this one www.judicial.state.sc.us/...ns/HTMLFiles/SC/25629.htm [ THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. In The Supreme Court. The State, Respondent v. Claude and Phil Humphries, Petitioners. ] What's the street value of 32 lbs of marijuana? Someone must really want this politician to go away if they're willing to invest that much to set him up. ...... rest of the comments: http://www.curevents.com/vb/showthread.php?p=918142 Additional items: Hitchens Watch: Cops execute REAL-ID opponent's dogs, Gestapo style Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on ... So Calvo opposes the driver's license provisions of the REAL ID Act. Some ... christopherhitchenswatch....al-id-opponents-dogs.html National ID at the Crossroads Dennis Bailey, Coalition for a Secure Driver's License; Cheye Calvo, ... studies on human genetics policy, genetic privacy, and auto insurance ratemaking. ... http://epic.org/events/id/speakers/default.html EPIC Alert 12.12 (06/16/05) Under the REAL ID Act, state DMVs will have to verify identification documents ... Barbara Simons of the Association for Computing Machinery; Cheye Calvo of ... http://epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_12.12.html Digg - SWAT team kills 2 dogs in pot bust on Md. mayor's home Cheye (pronounced "shi") Calvo directs the National Conference of State ... opposing the driver's license provisions of the REAL ID Act. Cheye has spoken, ... http://digg.com/world_news/SWAT_...d_mayor_s_home?t=17420122 ThePoliticalCat: The Police State: More Misbehaviour Jul 31, 2008 ... Cheye Calvo and Trinity Tomsic walk their dogs Payton and Chase ... the driver's license provisions of the REAL ID Act. Cheye has spoken, ... http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2008...te-more-misbehaviour.html EPIC Alert 12.12 [2005] EPICAlert 13 (16 June 2005) http://epic.org/privacy/id_cards/ Text of H.R. 418, the Real ID Act: .... genetic databases, video surveillance, ID systemsand freedom of information laws. ... http://www.worldlii.org/int/journals/EPICAlert/2005/13.html eBay Forums: The 30' package of pot,the Berwyn Hgts ... Mayor Cheye Calvo was not arrested in the raid, which was carried out about 7 ..... the driver's license provisions of the REAL ID Act. Cheye has spoken, ... http://forums.ebay.com/db1/threa...art=160&mod=1218307334928 ------------ a reminder: ISRAEL ORDERS MOSSAD TO MURDER AMERICANS IN THE USA - Chemtrail ... Jun 8, 2003 ... "Mossad is definitely being beefed up," a U.S. government official .... "ISRAEL TO KILL IN U.S., ALLIED NATIONS''. "Israel is embarking upon ... http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/001168.html From the American Defense League : "ADL Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith indoctrinates US law enforcement...." "Simi Valley Neighborhood Watch and the Jewish Defense League join forces Wanted criminals by ADL [American Defense League]: City of Simi Valley police, city council, and stalkers City of Simi Valley mayor Paul Miller, city council members Barbra Williamson, Glen Becerra, Steven Sojka, and Michelle Foster, city manager Mike Sedell, city attorney David Hirsch, and the city police are criminals who knowingly and willfully violate the constitutions of the United States and the State of California. We are in the process of preparing Criminal Complaints for the United States Department of Justice to prosecute and imprision these criminals.... TBC...." "Jewish Anti-Defamation League and the City of Simi Valley caught in collusion. City of Simi Valley and the State of California collude in motor vehicle licensing. When faced with citizen's arrest City of Simi Valley police forge search warrant...." "Are Jewish Defense League Monitors Tampering with the American ADL Mail? Are Simi Valley main post office postmaster Sue Morris and lobby director Brent Deckman monitors of the Jewish Defense League who opened American Defense League's letter below? We blurred the hand writing leaving only what we believe attracted the attention of the JDL monitors. More to follow...." http://americandefenseleague.com/ [unfortunately, the embedded links to some of these particular stories seem to be dead.]
Now I'd like to know more about that warrant. Dug this up from American Defense League: When faced with citizen's arrest City of Simi Valley police forge search warrant Jeff Malgren of the City of Simi Valley police department did not only forge the search warrant below, but he also based his forgery on false fact. We're in the process of compiling evidence, please come back.... TBC ADL American Defense League
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#3. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#2)
According to sources, the deputies armed with a warrant were acting on behalf of a drug squad for Prince George's County Police. Detectives had learned that a box containing more than 30 pounds of marijuana had been shipped from Arizona and was addressed to Calvo's wife at their Berwyn Heights address.
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