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Chris Spags Cops sometimes make mistakes on the address when trying to track down a criminal. Unprofessional though it may be, it does happen. But one Brooklyn couple has had police and FBI try to track down criminals at their house FIFTY times in the past eight years. Good work, officers of the law.
An elderly Brooklyn couple say they’re tired of hearing the phrase, “Police! Open up!”
Walter Martin, an 83-year-old World War II veteran, and his wife Rose, 82, tell the New York Daily News police have come looking for criminals at their house about 50 times in the past eight years.
The couple said one of the most bizarre mix-ups came on Oct. 10, 2006, when police and FBI agents rolled up, hunting for then-cop Angel Negron, who was later charged with raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was fired.
“That is one I can’t get over,” Walter Martin said, unable to understand how the NYPD could not know how to quickly find one of its own.
Even police don’t understand why the couple’s home continues to be a target.
“Our identity theft squad is investigating the matter,” Inspector Ed Mullen, an NYPD spokesman, told the Daily News.
NYC couple: Cops have wrong address — again [MSNBC]
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