Department of Oops: FBI Executes No-Knock Chainsaw Raid on the Wrong Apartment

What could go wrong with a simple drug raid?

Judy Sanchez woke Thursday to the sound of heavy footsteps in her stairwell, followed by a loud motor. She got to her kitchen in time to see the blade of a chain saw rip through her front door....

The people sawing through her door were FBI agents, looking for a gang member suspected of trafficking cocaine. But they went to the wrong address.

As I said in the comments:

There should be no professional immunity for screwed up no-knock raids. These guys should be prosecuted for felony armed home invasion, conspiracy to commit felony armed home invasion, and felony assault.

And they are damn lucky the woman behind the door didn't have a shotgun loaded with slugs, or a deer rifle. So far as I am concerned, if she had been armed, she could have legitimaterly fired when the chainsaw blade came through the door.

Michael Hartwell has the story here.