2 HURT IN RAID ON WRONG HOUSE

Couple Hospitalized After Police Burst Into Home Looking For Meth

An unidentified elderly Horn Lake couple were hospitalized Thursday after
police burst into their home thinking it housed a methamphetamine laboratory.

The incident occurred Wednesday about 4 a.m., said police Capt. Shannon
Beshears. Beshears said it was the right address, but the wrong house.

Beshears said a heavily armed Tactical Apprehension Containment Team
stormed the house.

"We had good information from a reliable source that had been backed up by
a purchase of narcotics linked to the address," he said. "However, when we
arrived at the designated address, there were two houses on the lot. We hit
the larger of the two houses."

"It was the wrong house," Beshears said. "The house was totally dark, and
the TACT members went through to the bedroom looking for the suspects."

A man and a woman - both in their 80s - were injured as TACT team members
secured the house although no drugs were found. There were children in the
house also, but they were not awakened, Beshears said.

Beshears said the woman received a dislocated shoulder and the man received
bruised ribs. Both were taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto, but both
asked police not to identify them.

"When we went to the second house on the lot, we found a methamphetamine
cook under way and we made an arrest of a woman in connection with that
illegal operation," Beshears said.

Police charged Sonseeaharay Lyn Fells, 36, with manufacturing a controlled
substance.

She was being held in the DeSoto County Jail in Hernando under a $100,000 bond.

Police Chief Darryl Whaley said an investigation would be made into the
operation to determine what happened when officers confronted the elderly
couple. He said he believes his officers acted correctly and followed
procedures when they entered the first home.

"Obviously, a mistake was made and it was regrettable," he said. "But, I
stand by my officers. I think they acted properly."

Beshears said William Clinton Pruitt, 41, also was arrested on a charge of
manufacture of a controlled substance and sale of a controlled substance.

He was being held under a $200,000 bond.