Detroit Couple: Police Raided Wrong Home

Detroit Police get a tip that two apartments on the 12900 block of Berg Road may have illegal drugs in them. They get drugs from one home and then bust down another door. However, the people who live there say they got the wrong guys.

"We executed a search warrant at apartment number 30. We garnered over 1,800 grams of marijuana, several firearms and made a substantial arrest," said Detroit Police Department Inspector Darryl Brown.

It was what happened next at apartment 28 that has one family fuming. They were in their home when the chaos started.

"Bam, my door was pushed in and they said, 'Detroit Police. We have a search warrant.' And, at that moment, I was so scared until I was just hyperventilating," said Sandra Byers.

Detroit Police raid Dan Bbyers' apartment with his wife and grandson inside. That's when they saw Sandra, Dan's wife, sitting quietly on a chair.

"One officer told me that when he saw me sitting in that chair, that's when he realized he had the wrong place," Sandra Byers said.

Police say they got information that drugs may also be at the second apartment, leading them to bust down the door there, too. Dan Byers, a lung cancer patient, was startled.

"I said, 'Don't shoot me... I don't have a weapon.' And he said, 'Get on the floor! Get on the floor!' And I'm trying to get down to the floor. And he said, 'Hurry up! Get on the floor!,'" Dan Byers said.

Detroit Police won't say definitively it was the wrong apartment, but they offer this to the family.

"If it turns out that it was the wrong apartment, definitely we're sorry for... that violation, but, right now, that's the same information that we got from apartment number 30. We received the same information, armed with a search warrant for that location. So, we're still checking on that," Brown said.

Detroit Police say similar raids have swept a lot of drugs off the streets, more than in years past. However, this family only hopes they'll be more certain the next time they go in.

"This is what you do for a living. You're supposed to have all of the information together it seems like to me... People make mistakes, but it seemed like a big blunder," said Dan Byers.

Detroit Police did fix the couple's door that was broken during the raid.