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With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.

Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid's target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk.

Eugene Swartz Sr. saw a sign on a building at a brick warehouse in the West Bottoms that advertisedBut on Tuesday, he was forced to abruptly move out, along with up to nine other tenants after the Kansas City Fire Department determined the building was illegal and unsafe., “Space for Rent: loft, office, storage, studio.”

She said her husband opened the door to multiple officers in raid gear with guns drawn. "We were completely shocked, upset," she continued. She said the officers demanded to come inside her home. "And my husband asked, 'Do you have a warrant?

Seattle police officers bust down a man's door with guns drawn and toss his place. There were two pot plants inside, but more importantly, the guy was a registered medical marijuana patient fully within his rights to grow. Probable cause has yet to be established. Also of note, marijuana possession is, by law, the lowest priority for Seattle law enforcement.

As part of a drug raid, the police broke into the wrong apartment. A single old man living in the apartment was immediately assaulted by 7 police officers as they proceeded to punch him, stomp his face then complain about his blood getting on their clothes.

They also felt a need to completely trash the apartment, then cover up the whole thing by denying ever going to the apartment.

Danville home raided in connection with dispensary

DANVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- State narcotics agents and police raided two East Bay locations Wednesday afternoon. They served search warrants at a Newark medical marijuana dispensary and at a private home in Danville where the owners allegedly live.

The Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, the Danville Police Department, and the Newark Police Department cooperated in a raid at a Danville home. Crime scene tape was up around the home for hours as police searched it.

Onlookers may have thought that the intense police action was part of the plot, but when Hungarian police and a SWAT team descended on the set of Brad Pitt's film "World War Z" on Monday, it was not a scripted event.

According to US Weekly, the SWAT team raided a Budapest warehouse where weapons were being stored for use in the epic zombie flick, with anti-terrorism officers seizing 85 guns. The firearms, which were supposed to be nonfunctional, were automatic, military-style assault rifles that were in good working order.

The Fed's, with the help of local law enforcement, raided the homes of at least 2 militia members Saturday evening about 6pm local time.
Another story http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2010/03/28/front/doc4bae9ec40d7...

The FBI may have had the wrong address when they recently raided an apartment in Michigan, investigating a World of Warcraft gold-selling claim. No arrests have been made following the March 30 raid.

The Bureau visited the Ann Arbor apartment in University Towers trying to find any information about “fraudulent sales or puchases of virtual currency” in the popular online game. An FBI spokesperson has explained to local media that she could not comment on the real-life raid, as many documents remain sealed.