ACLU Lawsuit Claims Grandmother's Home Was 'Illegally' Raided by SWAT Team Searching for Stolen iPho

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ACLU Lawsuit Claims Grandmother’s Home Was ‘Illegally’ Raided by SWAT Team Searching for Stolen iPhone 11

JERRY LAMBE Dec 3rd, 2022, 2:53 pm

Ruby Johnson, a 77-year-old grandmother and retired civil servant in Colorado, claims she was at home alone in January when a Denver Police Department SWAT team arrived in an armored vehicle with at least 8 officers wearing full body armor and carrying automatic weapons who tore her home apart in search of a missing iPhone.

Police found no stolen phone or any indication of criminal activity. Now, Johnson is suing Gary Staab, the lead detective in the case, claiming he used a “hastily prepared, bare-bones, misleading affidavit” to obtain a warrant and perform and “illegal search” of Johnson’s home that left her traumatized, according to a recently filed complaint.

The lawsuit, filed on Dec. 1 in the Denver County District Court by attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), says that police were looking into a truck that had been stolen from a nearby Hyatt. The truck allegedly contained four semi-automatic handguns, a tactical military-style rifle, a revolver, two drones, $4,000.00 in cash, and an old iPhone 11.

When Staab spoke to the owner of the stolen vehicle, the man said he’d used the “Find My” app to track his phone, which had “pinged” at Johnson’s address at approximately 11:30 a.m. and 3:55 p.m. the day it was stolen, according to an sworn affidavit submitted by Staab.

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