Cheye Calvo, Mayor of Berwyn Heights, MD, Innocent Victim of Police Raid which Killed His Two Dogs
What the heck is wrong with the law enforcement in Berwyn Heights, Maryland? The house of Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife Trinity Tomsic was raided and their dogs killed by police in what appeared to be an innocent victim accused of drug smuggling scheme, authorities said.
According to the Baltimore Sun, police kicked in the door and stormed his home and shot two black Labradors and seizing an unopened package with 32 pounds of marijuana inside. But the drugs evidently did not belong to him or his wife. Police say Cheye Calvo and his wife appeared to be victims of a plan by two men to smuggle millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about a half-dozen unsuspecting recipients.
The two men under arrest include a FedEx package deliveryman; investigators said the deliveryman would drop off a package outside a home, and the other man would come by a short time later and pick it up.
If you ask me, the Justice Department needs to investigate this mess. According to the Baltimore Sun, Calvo insisted the couple's dogs were gentle creatures and said police apparently killed them "for sport," gunning down one of them as it was running away."Our dogs were our children," said Calvo. "They were the reason we bought this house because it had a big yard for them to run in."
The mayor, who was changing his clothes when police burst in, also complained that he was handcuffed in his boxer shorts for about two hours along with his mother-in-law, and said the officers did not believe him when he told them he was the mayor. No charges were brought against Calvo or his wife, who came home in the middle of the raid.
Prince George's County Police Chief Melvin High said Wednesday that Calvo and his family were "most likely ... innocent victims," but he would not rule out their involvement, and he defended the way the raid was conducted. He and other officials did not apologize for killing the dogs, saying the officers felt threatened.
Police say that they have arrested two men suspected in a plot to smuggle 417 pounds (189 kilograms) of marijuana, and seized a total of $3.6 million in pot. Investigators said the package that arrived on Calvo's porch had been sent from Los Angeles via FedEx, and they had been tracking it ever since it drew the attention of a drug-sniffing dog in Arizona. Police intercepted it in Maryland, and an undercover detective posing as a deliveryman took it to the Calvo home.
This incident is disturbing on so many levels, but the bigger question is how come law enforcement had no clue where the mayor lived or why wasn't the police chief notified ahead of time. The police had no right to enter the home without knocking, especially if they did not have a "no knock warrant."
This is pretty embarrassing and according to Fox News, it comes on the heels of more questionable and equally embarrassing actions by Prince George's County law enforcement. A former police officer was sentenced in May to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture deliverymen at his home last year, one of them fatally. He claimed that they attacked him. In June, a suspect jailed in the death of a police officer was found strangled in his cell.
How do you not know is it possible that members of law enforcement do not know the name of their mayor? Simply ridiculous and shameful!
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