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<\/a><\/p>\nGaithersburg, MD \u2014 Guns Loaded? Check\u2026 Extra Ammunition? Check\u2026 Bullet-proof protective vests? Check\u2026 Right home address? Uh oh! In yet another SWAT Team flub, a home has been raided, and its occupants beaten. However, once again, the police went to the wrong address.<\/p>\n
The Carroll County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Gaithersburg admits they got it all wrong when they burst into Israel Orellana\u2019s home in Montgomery County.\u00a0Orellana has the same name as the man police were searching for in a gun theft case. But still, incredibly, Carroll County got a warrant to search the wrong address. Worse yet, the group of people gathered in the home were church goers who were spending the night socializing and praying.<\/p>\n
Orellana told reporters, \u201cI thought it was my mom\u2019s friends because sometimes they pray and they start dancing.\u201d<\/strong> But that night, it wasn\u2019t dancing which was disturbing his peace, it was officers of the peace doing so.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I get up from my bed and I start walking over to my door. And as I\u2019m opening my door, I make eye contact with the SWAT officer and he pushes up against the door with his shield and he slams me against the wall.\u201d Then, he describes what TFTP has all too often criticized, the charges of resisting arrest to free citizens who feel they\u2019ve done nothing for which they should be arrested. \u201cHe starts screaming at me, \u2018Stop resisting! Stop resisting!\u2019\u201d while the SWAT team raid continues to go down.<\/p>\n Orellana showed FOX 5 a bruise on his face and scrapes on his arm. He said his hands were tied behind his back and he was taken upstairs to find that his family and his mother\u2019s friends were also detained. He says officers barged in on his 14-year-old sister in the bathroom.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was really horrific,\u201d<\/strong> he said. \u201cYou feel really helpless during the whole situation. Like you know you\u2019re innocent, you\u2019re telling them you\u2019re innocent, but they just see you as a criminal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The raid consisted of two counties working together to effect an arrest of another \u201cIsrael Orellana,\u201d who was wanted in the burglary of 20 guns and money stolen from a residence. The police acted on video surveillance they\u2019d acquired from casing the home but even armed with video imagery, the Carroll County Sheriff\u2019s Office still got it wrong. They got a judge to issue a search warrant for Orellana\u2019s home and then requested that Montgomery County police execute it.<\/p>\n Both Israel Orellanas live in Gaithersburg and share similar appearances as stated by police who used Orellana\u2019s driver\u2019s license to determine identity.<\/p>\n Colonel Larry Suther\u00a0told FOX 5 that an internal investigation\u00a0will be conducted into the egregious error.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re going to take a hard look at how we got to that point,\u201d Suther said.<\/p>\n Orellana says he wants the police to be held accountable for their actions, especially since his mother had to be hospitalized for the subsequent panic attack. She\u2019s also battling cancer and currently undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s undergoing chemo, so her medicine puts her at high-risk of a heart attack\u2026And when she had the panic attack, it was very serious to all of us,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cThis isn\u2019t really about money to me. There needs to be action taken. People need to be held responsible, and they need to do a better job,\u201d<\/strong> he emphasized again.<\/p>\n \u201cLike, it\u2019s just that plain and simple. They can\u2019t be breaking into people\u2019s houses just because I have the same name and I look like someone,\u201d<\/strong> he concluded.<\/p>\n