"comadrejo"  wrote

> http://tinyurl.com/64xcx4
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> Md. mayor's dogs killed by SWAT after cops deliver pot
> 07/31/2008 @ 6:33 pm
> Filed by Associated Press
>
>
> BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. -- A SWAT team raided the home of a Washington,
> D.C.-area mayor, killing his two black Labrador retrievers and seizing
> an unopened package of marijuana delivered there.

> Prince George's County Police said Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo
> brought a 32-pound package of marijuana into his home that had been
> delivered by officers posing as delivery men. The Tuesday evening raid
> was conducted by county police narcotics officers and a sheriff's office
> SWAT Team.

> The package was addressed to Calvo's wife, Trinity Tomsic. His
> mother-in-law had asked the supposed delivery men to leave the package
> outside. Calvo has not been charged, though police said he, his wife and
> his mother-in-law are "persons of interest" in an ongoing investigation.
> "We never opened the box. We have nothing to do with this box," Calvo
> said.

> Sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. Mario Ellis says deputies "apparently
> felt threatened" when they shot the dogs.

> Calvo said officers entered about 7:30 p.m., first shooting 7-year-old
> Payton. They then pursued 4-year-old Chase, who ran away and was shot by
> police from behind, he said.

> Calvo said he doesn't have any idea how the package ended up at his
> house. He called the raid "the most traumatic experience" of his life.
> Calvo, who called his town "Mayberry inside the Capital Beltway," gets a
> small stipend as mayor and works at the SEED Foundation, a nonprofit
> that runs public boarding schools for at-risk students. His wife works
> as a state finance officer.

> "These were two beautiful black Labradors who were well-known in the
> community. We walked them twice a day; little kids knew their names and
> would come up to them and pet them," he said.