“ Andrew Leonard was watching television with his wife not long after returning from Ash Wednesday services when police burst through the front door of his North Baltimore home. He was handcuffed, plopped in a chair and told to keep quiet as officers rifled through the house, then interrogated for 15 minutes about drugs and a dealer he knew nothing about. As it turned out, police had the wrong house. The man they were looking for lived two doors down. Leonard, a 33-year-old chemist who has no criminal record, said he and his wife, a 29-year-old credit analyst, were frightened and humiliated by the incident. But for the past two months, he’s wanted just one thing from the city: for someone to pay for the damage to his front door.
Raid on wrong house frustrates Baltimore couple — baltimoresun.com
He put his broken door in his backyard, waiting for the city to pick it up. They didn’t, and then they fined him $50 for having a broken door in his backyard.
