Clay County Sheriff Gives Thugs a Look Into What a SWAT Raid Is Like
It is not at all unheard of for police chiefs and county sheriffs to make public pronouncements or issue warnings to criminals within their jurisdictions. But the sheriff of Florida’s Clay County made his intentions known to a group of thugs in a rather amusing fashion.
According to The Florida Times-Union, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office recently posted a video to its Facebook page showing the aftermath of a SWAT raid on a suspected drug house.
The camera first showed a row of handcuffed suspects seated together on a curb under the watchful eyes of several deputies. The footage then moved past a milling crowd of SWAT officers to find Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels standing between two armored vehicles in the front yard of the raided home.
As Daniels sipped his coffee from a large green mug, he noted that “me and the guys from the SWAT team narcotics section” had just served a search warrant on “a narcotics house” they had been aware of.
“We call this ‘Operation You Were Warned,’ because these individuals, all 15 that came out of this residence, were warned before that if they kept up, we’d come back,” the sheriff stated.
He further explained that criminals within his county had only three options: Quit committing crimes, leave the country or “you too will be on the receiving end of this.”
Sheriff Daniels led the camera past a shattered window to the front door of the home. He paused at the threshold to speak to the camera again.
He said that if criminals insisted on doing criminal things in his county, they may wake up early one morning to “a bang and a lot of noise” and find deputies and even himself standing inside their home.
“The end result … will be me standing in your living room, like I said, drinking my morning cup of coffee,” Daniels said. He then took a long drink of coffee and released a satisfied sigh. “Fifteen going to jail. Three big gulps. Y’all take care, Clay County.”
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According to WJXT, of the 15 individuals initially detained in the raid on the drug house, at least five people were ultimately arrested and charged with crimes ranging from maintaining a drug house to possessing marijuana and other drug equipment.
Sadly, an infant was also discovered inside the home during the raid, and the little baby has since been turned over to the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families.
In an update to the Facebook post by the sheriff’s office, it was noted that the raid also turned up “heroin/fentanyl, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and other evidence related to narcotics distribution.”
The post also noted that the agency had responded to various calls from this exact address nearly 30 times within the past six months, with a sizable amount of MDMA and cocaine discovered during a previous visit.
Those other calls to the residence included drug overdoses, “shots being fired, fights in progress, disturbances and much more.” That’s why the SWAT team and armored vehicles were used in the recent raid.
This sheriff offered the residents and guests of this known narcotics house fair warning that their criminal activity wouldn’t be tolerated. Obviously, they didn’t listen, and now some of them will head to jail while the sheriff sips his morning coffee, not even batting an eye.
They were, after all, warned.
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