American Military News by Shelly Bradbury - The Denver Post March 06, 2024
Denver police officers dressed in military-style SWAT gear descended on Johnson’s home on Jan. 4, 2022, to serve the search warrant. Standing on her lawn next to an armored tactical vehicle, the officers ordered Johnson out of her home. She emerged in a bathrobe and officers put her in the back of a police car, where she waited for hours while they searched her home.
The officers were looking for a stolen cellphone that was believed to be inside a stolen truck along with several guns. The owner of the stolen truck told police he’d used Apple’s Find My iPhone app and that the app showed the missing iPhone twice pinged near the intersection where Johnson lived on Jan. 3, 2022.
Staab used those pings to obtain a search warrant for Johnson’s house. The search warrant was approved by the Denver District Attorney’s Office and signed by Judge Beth Faragher.
As the officers conducted a knock-and-announce warrant at Johnson’s home, she said they smashed the door to her garage with a battering ram, broke apart a ceiling panel, damaged a collectible doll and left the house in shambles.
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