The Wrong Arm of the Law

Bumbling cops in Annapolis royally screwed up an operation by raiding the wrong apartment Wednesday night, using flash grenades and kicking a resident in the groin before they realized their mistake. Can you even imagine how that poor guy and his wife felt ?

Police spokesman Hal Dalton said something must have gone amiss in the briefing beforehand. "We don't know how the mistake was made," Dalton said. Traumatized wife Silvia Bernal, 30, said that about 15 officers burst through the front door of her apartment while she was quietly cooking dinner about 8:20 p.m. She said the officers kicked her husband in the groin while she fled into a bedroom and barred the door with her body.Then she said both of them she and her husband were wrestled to the ground and handcuffed.

The Capital said a police officer went outside and realized they had raided the wrong residence. Police said they were supposed to have raided a different apartment and said the incident was regrettable.

Spa Cove apartment manager Latisha Marshall says there is a large dent in the front door. And she said there are two large black stains from the flash-bang grenades police deployed after entering the apartment.When officers and the city's tactical squad eventually went to the right apartment, they said it was empty. Probably heard all the yelling and the flash grenades going off, eh ?