Read this today, very funny to say the least...
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/21/undercover-drug-investigators-embarrass-polk-sheri/
"With guns drawn and flashlights cutting through darkened rooms, Polk County
undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael
Difalco near Lakeland in March.
As investigators searched the home for drugs, some drug task force members
found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering Difalco's
house, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began
bowling frame after frame.
While some detectives hauled out evidence such as flat screen televisions and
shotguns, others threw strikes, gutter balls and worked on picking up spares.
A Polk County sheriff's detective cataloging evidence repeatedly put down her
work and picked up a Wii remote to bowl. When she hit two strikes in a row, she
raised her arms above her head, jumping and kicking.
While a female detective lifted a nearby couch looking for evidence, another
sheriff's detective focused on pin action.
But detectives with the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the Auburndale, Lakeland
and Winter Haven police departments did not know that a wireless security
camera connected to a computer inside Difalco's home was recording their
activity.
The recording obtained by News Channel 8 showed several members of the county's
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) task force entering the house
shortly after 8 a.m. According to the search warrant, their mission was to
search for drugs, stolen property and the fruits of any illegal drug activity.
Now there are questions on how the impromptu bowling tournament might affect
the case against Difalco.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd denies it will have any effect.
"That absolutely is not true; that doesn't invalidate the search at all," Judd
said. "Now the defendant would like for it to invalidate the search, but
unfortunately for him, it won't."
Judd, who watched the video during an interview last week, called the situation
an embarrassment.
"I'm not pleased that they played that Wii bowling game," Judd said. The
sheriff's office oversees the drug task force. Judd said he initiated an
internal administrative investigation of the incident.
"That is not appropriate conduct at a search warrant," he said. "But I am less
pleased with the supervision that didn't walk in and say, turn that off. That's
what supervision should have done."
Task force members played the video game at various times during the day, for a
total of a little over an hour of playing time. The competition proved to be
quite competitive at times. A task force supervisor from the Lakeland Police
Department, gun at his side, pumped his fist after picking up a strike on the
first ball he threw. The video showed he continued bowling frame after frame,
competing with another undercover detective."
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