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Cook County sheriff's police on a drug raid smashed into a Southwest Side house late Thursday night, terrorizing the elderly couple who lives there before admitting they had the wrong house.
Sheriff's police this morning said they targeted the home and obtained a search warrant based on information from an informant who had provided credible information in the past.
"As soon as we entered the home, we knew this couple was not involved in the activity alleged," sheriff's police spokesman Steve Patterson said in an e-mail. "Our officers immediately requested the assistance of an interpreter and, as a precautionary measure, a medic, while also asking the couple to contact a relative who could assist in the situation."
Paterson said the department has reached out to the family.
The search warrant for the home in the 5600 block of South Kilbourn Avenue cited suspected crystal meth, cocaine, guns and money. It also named a 23-year-old suspect whom the Jakymecs say they have never heard of.
With her husband already asleep, 84-year-old Anna Jakymec was just turning out the lights when she heard loud noises at the back and front doors about 11:30 p.m.
Her initial thought was that her 89-year old husband had fallen out of bed, but she realized something else was happening when she looked into the front room.
"I see maybe 20 guys come in and see the door knocked open," she said.
"They show me a sheet with a woman and man who complained we have that. We don't," Anna Jakymec said. "They broke two doors and a garage window. Then they say, 'C'mon, c'mon--go, go, go, stay by your husband. He said someone complained we had all these drugs."
Cook County sheriff's police on a drug raid smashed into a Southwest Side house late Thursday night, terrorizing the elderly couple who lives there before admitting they had the wrong house.
Sheriff's police this morning said they targeted the home and obtained a search warrant based on information from an informant who had provided credible information in the past.
"As soon as we entered the home, we knew this couple was not involved in the activity alleged," sheriff's police spokesman Steve Patterson said in an e-mail. "Our officers immediately requested the assistance of an interpreter and, as a precautionary measure, a medic, while also asking the couple to contact a relative who could assist in the situation."
Paterson said the department has reached out to the family.
The search warrant for the home in the 5600 block of South Kilbourn Avenue cited suspected crystal meth, cocaine, guns and money. It also named a 23-year-old suspect whom the Jakymecs say they have never heard of.
With her husband already asleep, 84-year-old Anna Jakymec was just turning out the lights when she heard loud noises at the back and front doors about 11:30 p.m.
Her initial thought was that her 89-year old husband had fallen out of bed, but she realized something else was happening when she looked into the front room.
"I see maybe 20 guys come in and see the door knocked open," she said.
"They show me a sheet with a woman and man who complained we have that. We don't," Anna Jakymec said. "They broke two doors and a garage window. Then they say, 'C'mon, c'mon--go, go, go, stay by your husband. He said someone complained we had all these drugs."
