Thread: Dept. of Education breaks down Stockton man's door

12:15 AM, Jun 8, 2011

STOCKTON, CA - Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.

"I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright said.

Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.

"He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there," Wright said.

According to Wright, officers also woke his three young children ages 3, 7, and 11 and put them in a Stockton police patrol car with him. Officers then searched his house.

As it turned out, the person law enforcement was looking for was not there - Wright's estranged wife.

"They put me in handcuffs in that hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids," Wright said.

Wright said he later went to the mayor and Stockton Police Department, but the City of Stockton had nothing to do with Wright's search warrant.

The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans.

"They busted down my door for this," Wright said. "It wasn't even me."

According to the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General, the case can't be discussed publicly until it is closed, but a spokesperson did confirm that the department did issue the search warrant at Wright's home.

The Office of the Inspector General has a law enforcement branch of federal agents that carry out search warrants and investigations.

Stockton Police Department said it was asked by federal agents to provide one officer and one patrol car just for a police presence when carrying out the search warrant.

Stockton police did not participate in breaking Wright's door, handcuffing him, or searching his home.

"All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new door," Wright said.

News10/KXTV

http://www.news10.net/news/article/1410 ... -mans-door

Wow this is crazy I've never heard of such a thing!

The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans.

this is outrageous The Dept of Ed????

There have been several articles this year telling of fedgov departments arming themselves, getting police cars, lights and sirens. I think the last one I read about was bank examiners.

So the department of education has more power than the police? They didn't even bother to see if she lived at the residence first just kicked down the door no investigation first! Sounds like she managed to piss off the wrong people! Bet this has little to do with a student loan and that's just their excuess. From what I understand a lot of student loans don't get paid back! Glad I don't have an out standing student loan

Related: Send All Debt Defaulters to the Gulags!

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/s ... s_06082011

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-240367-.html

like I have been saying... a big purge is coming .. so prepare the best you can

this will not happen to Illegal Aliens; only American citizens. They will find every reason they can to excuse the debts of Illegals and throw it on the tax payers collective broke backs

POLICE STATE, USA

SWAT team breaks down door over student loans

'He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there'--KXTV-TV, Stockton

WEB ONLY: Stockton man tells his story about search warrant

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Stockton resident Kenneth Wright tells News10 his side of the story when federal agents served a search warrant at his home.

VIDEO: http://www.news10.net/video/default.asp ... 3856954001

Questions surround feds' raid of Stockton home

3:44 PM, Jun 8, 2011

Video at the Link: http://www.news10.net/news/local/story. ... yid=141108

STOCKTON, CA - A federal education official Wednesday morning offered little information as to why federal agents raided a Stockton man's home Tuesday.

DOCUMENT: Search Warrant http://www.news10.net/news/pdf/Ed-dept- ... 060711.pdf

The resident, Kenneth Wright, does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe why what he thought was a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 in the morning.

"I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright said.

As Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts, he said the officers barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.

"He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there," Wright said.

According to Wright, officers also woke his three young children, ages 3, 7, and 11, and put them in a Stockton police patrol car with him. Officers then searched his house.

"They put me in handcuffs in that hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids," Wright said.

As it turned out, the person law enforcement was looking for - Wright's estranged wife - was not there.

Wright said he later went to Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston and Stockton Police Department, but learned the city of Stockton had nothing to do with the search warrant.

U.S. Department of Education spokesman Justin Hamilton confirmed for News10 Wednesday morning federal agents with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), not local S.W.A.T., served the search warrant. Hamilton would not say specifically why the raid took place except that it was part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

Hamilton said the search was not related to student loans in default as reported in the local media.

OIG is a semi-independent branch of the education department that executes warrants for criminal offenses such as student aid fraud, embezzlement of federal aid and bribery, according to Hamilton. The agency serves 30 to 35 search warrants a year.

"They busted down my door for this," Wright said. "It wasn't even me."

The Stockton Police Department said it was asked by federal agents to provide one officer and one patrol car just for a police presence when carrying out the search warrant.

Police officers did not participate in breaking Wright's door, handcuffing him, or searching his home.

"All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new door," Wright said.

News10/KXTV

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story. ... yid=141108