SWAT Team for Unpaid Student Loans

[Will E Worm]

A little over the top?: SWAT team launch dawn raid on family home to collect unpaid student loans

A father was dragged from his home and handcuffed in front of his children by a SWAT team looking for his estranged wife - to collect her unpaid student loans.
A stunned Kenneth Wright had his front door kicked in by the raiding party at 6 am yesterday before being dragged onto his front porch, handcuffed and led to a police car with his three children.

He says he was then detained for six hours while officers looked for his wife - who no longer lives at the house.

Mr Wright was later told by Stockton police that the order to send in the SWAT team came from The U.S. Department of Education who were looking for his estranged wife to collect defaulted loan payments.

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Way over the line. :cussing:

 

[Connor Macleod]

First, The U.S. Department of Education doesn't have the authority to order any law enforcement agency to do anything.

Second, this was a gross over-reaction. Not only would I sue the police department, but I'd sue The U.S. Department of Education.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

They should have shot him. That'd teach the other layabouts that don't pay back the loan the State gives them in order to give the the PRIVILEGE of further education and life improvement.

Also, I bet One whole Groat that the reason the SWAT team was there is that Mr. Default there has a nasty record of violence/arms offences and the loans collection officer didn't fancy getting a cap in the ass over a missing tuition check.

Jus' sayin'.

Bitches.

 

[Ace Bandage]

Except that, first, it wasn't a SWAT Team. SWAT teams are armed tactical teams from the local police department; the local (Stockton, California) department sent exactly one officer in a patrol car. This was a team from the federal Office of Inspector General (no, not the Department of Education, which doesn't have any armed SWAT teams either). And they weren't there over unpaid student loans. They were there as part of a criminal investigation, usually with OIG that means a multi-million dollar fraud operation. The local press in Stockton has put out follow-up stories clarifying the initial shoddy reporting, but I guess it's easier to just pull the first wire service story and run the sensational stuff. And nobody will read the follow up, so this fake story will live on for years.

Sums it up perfectly.

 

[StanScratch]

Sums it up perfectly.

Yeah, so much reeked with the original presentation of the story, it could be smelled on the moon...which doesn't even have an atmosphere, making it impossible to smell!

 

[John_8581]

I saw this topic. Thanks Will E.

Reminded me of this ...



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