Pubdate: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 Source: Edmonton Sun (Canada) Copyright: 1999, Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonSun/ Forum: http://www.canoe.ca/Chat/home.html Author: Kim Bradley RESIDENTS ANGRY AFTER DRUG RAID A pair of seniors claim they were victimized by police who smashed their way into the couple's inner-city rooming house yesterday to arrest two other tenants. Cops say they believed a drug operation was being run from inside the house and that the search warrant they obtained on that notion was executed by the book. Ron Davies, 65, says he is planning to file a complaint against the police after his handicapped common-law wife, Julia Johnson, 64, was handcuffed during a drug raid in the rooming house at 10710 103 St. around 3 a.m. yesterday. Johnson said the handcuffs caused a hand to swell and she may have to see a doctor. "She's in shock right now," said Davies of his common-law wife of 29 years. "She can't even move her fingers. They should never have tied her up." Davies is asking that the police be held accountable for the damages they caused to the house when they smashed the front window and the door to get inside. The pensioner claims his landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't come up with the money to fix the damage. According to Sgt. Garet Bonn, cops went to the house after they heard from several sources that two men living there may be selling drugs. They also had information to suggest they were armed and a possible threat to police, he said. "These people live in a building where this type of activity was going on," Bonn said. "We have to go with the information we have at the time." It is routine for tactical cops to detain everyone found in a home when doing a search of this nature to protect the investigation and the officers doing the search, he added. There was evidence of drug use found in the house, but not enough to warrant any charges, Bonn said. - --- MAP posted-by: Patrick Henry