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News (Media Awareness Project) - US WI: 2 Officers Reassigned After Botched Raid
Title:US WI: 2 Officers Reassigned After Botched Raid
Published On:2001-02-16
Source:Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
Fetched On:2008-01-26 23:57:08
2 OFFICERS REASSIGNED AFTER BOTCHED RAID

One Drug Agent Says He Wasn't Working Night Wrong House Targeted

Two officers who supervise the Waukesha County Metro Drug Enforcement
Group were reassigned Friday following a raid on the wrong Muskego
home, but that didn't satisfy the Muskego woman handcuffed and forced
to the ground during the incident.

One of the officers, Waukesha County sheriff's Capt. Terry Martorano,
should apologize to her, Sue Wilson said Friday.

"He was ruthless," she said. "If he has anything to do with the
public in his new job, I won't be happy.

"He should be in Antarctica."

Both Martorano and sheriff's Lt. Charles Wood were removed from drug
squad duty Friday.

Wood confirmed Friday he was one of the two officers reassigned but
said he didn't understand why he was removed from the unit, because
he did not participate in the raid.

"It was my wedding anniversary that night," Wood said. "I wasn't even there."

Sheriff's Detective Steve Pederson, a department spokesman, said the
squad's two supervisors had not been suspended but would be
performing other unspecified duties.

On Thursday, Wilson said, she had a "heated" phone conversation with
Sheriff William Kruziki. She said they were supposed to meet Thursday
night at her home but he didn't show up.

Pederson confirmed that Kruziki spoke with Wilson Thursday and
apologized but there are no plans for the sheriff to meet with her in
person.

Kruziki did not return a phone call Friday seeking comment. However,
he said Thursday that part of the problem might have been officers'
belief they were looking for a house with a woman and a dog whose
descriptions matched Wilson and her bichon frise, Bogey.

Wilson, 49, said she was in her driveway about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday
when drug agents in SWAT gear grabbed her. One officer had a gun in
her face, she said, and they told her to lie down in her driveway
with her hands cuffed behind her back.

Other officers entered the home and searched it before Wilson
convinced them they were at the wrong home, she said. The house
listed on the search warrant was a different house on the block. It
was never searched.
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