POLICE TERRORIZE INNOCENT FAMILY IN RAID GONE AWRY

DALTON, Wis. (AP) - A quiet evening ended for a rural Dalton family when
drug agents kicked their door in, pushed inside brandishing handguns and
launched a search - even though they were in the wrong house.

"When I got into the hallway, I saw four guys in black with guns drawn,"
Jesus Olveda said. "They had a flashlight in my face and told me to get down
on the floor.

"I could hear my wife saying, 'You're at the wrong address,' but they didn't
listen," he said. "When I lifted my head to say they were at the wrong
address, one of them put a knee on my head and ground it into the floor."

As reported in the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen on Wednesday, the incident
happened the night of Oct. 5, as Olveda's wife, Wendy, who is five months
pregnant, was doing work at a home computer for her job as a fifth-grade
teacher at Markesan Elementary School.

Their daughter, Zena, was sitting on an upstairs couch.

Jesus Olveda, 38, an employee at Del Monte in Markesan, said he was in a
bedroom reading when the four armed men crashed their way in. He said he and
his wife were pushed to the floor with their hands behind their heads as
their frightened daughter watched from a couch.

He said they repeatedly told the agents they were in the wrong house.

Dee Evans, Markesan police chief and head of the Green Lake County Drug Task
Force, told the Daily Citizen he had been advised by counsel not to comment
on the incident. District Attorney James Camp said he too could not discuss
it.

A search warrant used in the break-in was kept secret by law enforcement
officials until drug charges were filed Tuesday against the Olvedas'
next-door neighbor.

The content of the search warrant remained sealed by the courts.

Jesus Olveda said that once members of the drug task force realized they had
searched the wrong home and were holding innocent people, several of the
officers rushed through a garage door and ran across their property to the
house next door.

He said one officer had to return to retrieve the search warrant.

Evans stayed behind to apologize and assured the Olvedas that the task force
would restore damaged property, Jesus Olveda said.

"This is a very traumatic experience for my whole family," Wendy Olveda said
Tuesday. "I don't know how I'm going to be able to sleep. How can such a
thing happen to an innocent family?"