Another Isolated Incident (Dead Dog Bonus!)
This kind of thing almost never happens:
An Accokeek couple is demanding an apology after Prince George's County Sheriff's Deputies burst into their home and killed their dog—all because deputies went to the wrong address.
Pam and Frank Myers were tucked away in their home Friday night watching a movie when the warrant squad pounced.
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They wouldn't let me go to the bathroom which is like seven feet down the hall," said Frank Myers.
"it was terrifying. I can't sit on my couch at night any more. I'm looking over my shoulder the whole time," said Pam Myers.
The Myers say the deputies knew immediately they had raided the wrong home. They say it could have ended with an apology, until the couple heard two shots from the yard.
"And I said, 'You just shot my dog," said Pam Myers, through tears. "I just wanted to go out and hold her a bit. They wouldn't even let me go out."
The couple's five-year-old boxer Pearl was killed. The deputy says he feared for his life. They say the dog would bark but was no danger to the deputies.
The house the elite, well-trained, highly professional police unit was looking for was two doors down.
Map of botched raids here (now, unfortunately, about three-dozen incidents out of date). List of dogs shot during drug raids here. "Government Goons Murder Puppies!" rant here.