so apparently swat thuggery is not limited to drug enforcement

Nope, even defaulting on student loans gets you raided now.

 

http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-St
ockton-mans-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 the officers 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 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
representative confirmed the department did issue the search warrant at
Wright's home. 

 

Wednesday morning, inspector general spokeswoman Gina Burress provided the
following statement:

"The Office of Inspector General does not engage in the collection of
student loans. Our mission is to conduct criminal investigations related to
the programs and operations of the U.S. Department of Education, which
include the student financial aid programs. We can confirm that we executed
a search warrant at the residence, however our policy is not to discuss
details of our on-going work."

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

 

The 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. 

 

Police officers 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.

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