04-07-2011, 12:30 PM
(04-07-2011, 12:04 PM)Adub Wrote: The dang Blade doesn't keep the articles around very long and it is even difficult to get them in cache. But I don't remember LE saying anything about lights on, or off. Or even the TV for that matter. All I remember is that they said the home looked secure.
I wish the article about the Police defending their actions was still around.
Anybody have it?
I found this, page 1 post #5
Early Monday morning, her husband had met sheriff's deputies at the home where their 21-year-old son had been staying with his girlfriend, Lisa Straub, 20. Not long afterward, Mrs. Vasquez-Clarke arrived at the house with her cousin.
"I kept telling [the deputies], 'Please kick the door in.' I had a horrible gut-wrenching feeling," she told The Blade Tuesday. "My son isn't answering the phone. These kids could be dead in the house. They could need medical help. They said they didn't hear anything and they didn't see forcible entry."
Edit to add:
Sheriff's Detective Cathy Stooksbury said Tuesday that the deputies who responded to the Straub home did what they legally could do.
"Everyone was walking around the house. Everyone was looking in, trying to get them to answer the door," Detective Stooksbury said. "There was no probable cause to kick that door in. There was no probable cause to believe there was something wrong inside that home."