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PITTSBURGH – Alongside a Monroeville detective, the City of Pittsburgh has argued that it was within its rights to search the plaintiffs’ residence for an attempted murder suspect – and where an unsuspecting family lived, who it was later learned had no connection to the suspect or his alleged crime.
PITTSBURGH – A Monroeville detective asserts he was in hot pursuit of an attempted homicide suspect and had probable cause when he served a search warrant and his fellow officers tore through a local home – where an unsuspecting family lived, who it was later learned had no connection to the suspect or his alleged crime.
PITTSBURGH – A local couple alleges that City of Pittsburgh and Borough of Monroeville police officers violated their civil rights and those of their family by unlawfully using paramilitary force to break into their house, detain them, destroy their belongings and contaminate their home with tear gas, this past January.
A family whose Monroeville home was stormed by Pittsburgh SWAT officers in January is suing the city in federal court, claiming the violent raid violated their civil rights. The family said in the lawsuit that at least 20 officers carrying machine guns raided their Paulson Avenue home Jan. 22, scaring