Feds Still on the Hook for Couple's Missing $200K
Feds Still on the Hook for Couple's Missing $200K
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - An elderly couple can sue the federal agents they say illegally raided their house and seized $200,000 in cash at gunpoint, a federal judge ruled.
Malaquias and Cayetana Reynoso claim officers with the San Francisco Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives forcefully entered their house on June 18, 2009.
The couple says they were in their 70s at the time of the raid and that the authorities knew they had no criminal record. But the officers held them at gunpoint for five hours while they illegally searched the property, refusing to let them go to the bathroom unattended or take medication, according to the complaint.
As the officers were leaving, Malaquias Reynoso says he noticed $200,000 in cash had disappeared from his bedroom without a receipt. He allegedly confronted an officer, who "responded by pointing his loaded weapon at said plaintiff with the admonition to 'go back in that house or I'll blow you [sic] head off.'"
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