Woman Collapses in Courthouse, Dies, Attorney Says She Was Stressed By Commando-Style Raid on Her Home, Husband's Arrest
Family already suing over raid
Stacey Feigel's husband, Sheldon, is facing multiple felony counts related to an alleged scam involving filing fraudulently for adverse possession on abandoned homes. While arriving in court for a hearing, Stacey collapsed from a "cardiac event" (according to the coroner) and died. Attorney Mark Coleman suggested stress from the raid and arrest could have led to her death.
Stacey Feigel appeared fit and healthy and jogged regularly, he said. But she also has been stressed by her husband's arrest and the commando-style raid on her home when three of their children were present, Coleman said.
Investigators, with guns drawn, entered their home while family members were sleeping or just waking up, Coleman said.
"For Chrissakes, the family had never been in trouble before but police pointed guns at the kids' heads," he said.
The Sanger attorney was arrested on suspicion of perjury and falsifying documents in a statewide real estate scam. He has filed a claim against the state of California seeking $1 million in damages for the raid on his family's home.
His claim alleges that armed officers violated his freedom of unreasonable search and seizure when they entered his home at 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 15. He was then held all day and denied his right to speak to a lawyer.
The Feigels also are seeking damages for the assault and emotional distress inflicted on his three teenage children who were home at the time.
More Reason on the militarization of police.
h/t Nathan Brown
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Another story where there are no good guys.
“Hey, look! They made of loathsome piece of shit appear sympathetic.”
Good work, law enforcement. We can always count on you to take any situation, and turn it into a clown-filled clusterfuck.
SWAT raids for alleged real estate fraud?
And people wonder why I keep a loaded shotgun to hand in my house. We’ve got a couple of photo “tickets” aging out of the system right now. Sounds like they would easily justify a SWAT raid on our house, under current standards.
Nah, for that it’ll be a drone strike. They’ll only put boots on the ground if there’s something of value they want to take.
Yeah Dean, but didn’t you recently move to Tucson? I’m not sure where you were before hand but there may be a chance that those tickets didn’t follow you
I’m sorry I might have misunderstood your comment. If these photo tickets you are speaking about were in Tucson. They are good as dead. The cameras all along River Road have been deactivated. All the cameras violate due process
Yeah, Tucson tickets.
And since when has due process, or the lack of it, figured into SWAT raids?
the lack of it is central to SWAT raids. but due process is an ideal, to be sought and never attained in any monopoly of dispute resolution.
Thank God everyone got to go home safe.
If the police are forced to knock on your door and wait for you to open it, the terrorists have won.
He might have flushed all those deeds down the terlet.
Cops can get away with a lot more shit in poor neighborhoods, but this new trend of pointing guns at the kids of SWPL types won’t fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lNk3J6Fz18
So say we all!
Maybe she was stressed that her husband was a crook.
Quick get in there before they flush illegally acquired homes down the toilet!!
The Sanger attorney was arrested on suspicion of perjury and falsifying documents in a statewide real estate scam.
Fool! Only cops are allowed to lie in court and file false reports!
This guy was involved in one of those “adverse possession” scams that frequently involves hijacking people’s homes while they’re on vacation?
Sorry, but the way I see it, the only unfortunate part of this is that everyone invoked didn’t drop dead. No sympathy here, at all.
s/invoked/involved/
Damn spell check!
I maintain that if you show me someone who trusts the cops, I’ll show you someone who has never dealt with them on anything greater than a traffic ticket.
Hi Mary.