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lilwing88lilwing88 Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭
Dept. of Education breaks down Stockton man's door

STOCKTON, CA - Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.

"I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright said.

Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.

"He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there," Wright said.

According to Wright, officers also woke his three young children ages 3, 7, and 11 and put them in a Stockton police patrol car with him. Officers then searched his house.

As it turned out, the person law enforcement was looking for was not there - Wright's estranged wife.

"They put me in handcuffs in that hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids," Wright said.

Wright said he later went to the mayor and Stockton Police Department, but the City of Stockton had nothing to do with Wright's search warrant.

The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans.

"They busted down my door for this," Wright said. "It wasn't even me."

According to the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General, the case can't be discussed publicly until it is closed, but a spokesperson did confirm that the department did issue the search warrant at Wright's home.

The Office of the Inspector General has a law enforcement branch of federal agents that carry out search warrants and investigations.

Stockton Police Department said it was asked by federal agents to provide one officer and one patrol car just for a police presence when carrying out the search warrant.

Stockton police did not participate in breaking Wright's door, handcuffing him, or searching his home.

"All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new door," Wright said.

http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door

Uh, I think the DOE owes him more than an apology and a new door. If this isn't a scary enough story about how the government can be "overreaching", I don't know what is....
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  • klgoldmanklgoldman Posts: 176
    Wow, this is sickening!
  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    the government wants their money, and they want it now.
  • Dude LoveDude Love Posts: 315
    Looks like I'll be signing up for some cheap summer classes to keep that deferment going...my doors have weak hinges as it is!
  • RCCCigarRCCCigar Posts: 106
    Doesn't the SWAT team have someting more important to do? Like kicking in the door on people doing something EXTREMELY violent.......like smoking marijuana? Lol! Gotta keep those violent college graduates and marijuana smokers in check.
  • Russ55Russ55 Posts: 2,765 ✭✭
    I don't know that I believe this story. I'm sure it's possible, but something just doesn't feel right with it.
  • jr_p951jr_p951 Posts: 1,121
    Thats garbage! He should get a new door! Maybe some ice cream for the kids too. Thats why I let Uncle Sam pay for my college!
  • Joeyjoe21_8Joeyjoe21_8 Posts: 2,048
    Russ55:
    I don't know that I believe this story. I'm sure it's possible, but something just doesn't feel right with it.
    So for no one that lives there in Stockton, its a complete craphole...big time....one of the worst cities to live in for CA, and im sure there was more to it the student loans from the FEDS......i mean i dont like the goverment either, but stockton is full of prostitutes, drugs, gangs, and just a dump so it may have been just a easy way to get her in custody for something down the road? just sayign.
  • lilwing88lilwing88 Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭
    Joeyjoe21_8:
    Russ55:
    I don't know that I believe this story. I'm sure it's possible, but something just doesn't feel right with it.
    So for no one that lives there in Stockton, its a complete craphole...big time....one of the worst cities to live in for CA, and im sure there was more to it the student loans from the FEDS......i mean i dont like the goverment either, but stockton is full of prostitutes, drugs, gangs, and just a dump so it may have been just a easy way to get her in custody for something down the road? just sayign.
    Let's hope that's the case and that this isn't the new SOP for defaulted student loans. I technically defaulted on my loan a while back due to a automatic debit snafu. I'd hate to see more doors kicked in for this reason alone.
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  • Russ55Russ55 Posts: 2,765 ✭✭
    lilwing88:
    Joeyjoe21_8:
    Russ55:
    I don't know that I believe this story. I'm sure it's possible, but something just doesn't feel right with it.
    So for no one that lives there in Stockton, its a complete craphole...big time....one of the worst cities to live in for CA, and im sure there was more to it the student loans from the FEDS......i mean i dont like the goverment either, but stockton is full of prostitutes, drugs, gangs, and just a dump so it may have been just a easy way to get her in custody for something down the road? just sayign.
    Let's hope that's the case and that this isn't the new SOP for defaulted student loans. I technically defaulted on my loan a while back due to a automatic debit snafu. I'd hate to see more doors kicked in for this reason alone.
    Yeah, seriously. There's probably more to the story, and the reason, otherwise it just doesn't make any sense.
  • mfotismfotis Posts: 720 ✭✭
    I work for the G and this is pathetic. A bunch of tools who were finally able to get out from behind the desk. What a bunch of D-bags.
  • phobicsquirrelphobicsquirrel Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭
    I wonder if something else is up, but either way that's bogus. Well I really think this will be happening more and more. Whether it be from government agencies, police, or private security forces. We all are sheep in this world. NEW WORLD ORDER baby!!!
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