Last spring, Allyson Kitchel returned home to find the police preparing to raid her Capitol Hill home.  They had a search warrant for the house after a 19-year-old man was arrested on gun charges – his mother told police her son lived at the address that is the Kitchel’s home.  According to this ABC 7 News story, the 19-year old’s mother knew she was giving the wrong address because it is the suspect’s family that sold the Kitchel’s their house.

While police ceased their attempt to break down the doors when Kitchel showed them her ID, the team attempting to gain entrance through the back door with a battering ram and crowbar had already done considerable damage to the tune of a $3,000 repair bill.  The Kitchels have been trying to get the city to pay for the damages, but the city is refusing, saying that the warrant was “authorized and valid and that MPD officers determined there was sufficient probable cause” to search the house.  Kitchel asserts that the city should have first checked the public land record.

The full story can be read here and the video can be viewed below: