This happened in Maryland right next to U of Maryland where I go to school. This is some funny shit. I think it should be here instead of IFIOTW.


"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."

Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/SWAT_team_kills_2_dogs_in_0731.html

There is also a Washington Post article about this but it is too long to include in this post.

Heh, I lived in Prince Georges County for 18 years. It sounds typical of the PGC police, I've had a few run-ins with them in the past.

The mayor is going to probably get quite bit of money out of this, since it seems someone set him up by mailing that package to him, something he is completely helpless against and he won't get charged unless the find solid information that he somehow requested it.

I saw this on the news in ocean city. More innocent life taken over a harmless plant. Fucking retarded police officers

haha, at the Payton and Chase part I thought they were referring to small children, that they just shot for no reason thats fucked up lol.

Good to see some MD guys in BLTC. Hows the weed in your area these days? I live in Rockville right now and the KB has been lacking.

The police set him up! It says in the article that police posing as delivery men delivered the 32 lbs packeage of marijuana.

Thats not funny at all..

The dog was running away so they shot it?
Fucking low-life's.

This.
Seriously, the dog was RUNNING AWAY, it posed no threat. I hope those cops get discharged and sued to fucks end.

thats some bullshit, id be so pissed if someone shot my dogs Id set there house on fire

It's too bad we don't know each other. I make a run out to silver springs and baltimore to visit family and friends every winter, and I bring plenty of the plant life from up here. I'm pretty sure were even going straight through you on the pike to fredericks this november.

Read this in the paper last night at work.

Allowed me to become fairly angry.

Gee.

I wonder what his opinions on marijuana prohibition laws are now, after having the most traumatic experience of his life over no more then an apparent delivery of a box of pot.

It's too bad we don't know each other. I make a run out to silver springs and baltimore to visit family and friends every winter, and I bring plenty of the plant life from up here. I'm pretty sure were even going straight through you on the pike to fredericks this november.
Yea man I work on the pike.

This is what they get for fuckin' with the law. Ya-yaiii!

They always told us that 80% of living beings die upon contact with marijuana. Why does nobody ever listen?