Sheriff's police apologize for raiding elderly couple's home [View All]

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Anna and Andrij Jakymec were terrified when two dozen Cook County sheriff's police broke into their Southwest Side home in a mistaken drug raid, said their son, Andrew. (E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / October 8, 2010)


by Matthew Walberg, Tribune reporter
9:07 p.m. CDT, October 8, 2010



The Cook County sheriff's police apologized Friday to an elderly couple hours after some two dozen gun-toting officers burst into their Southwest Side home late at night in a mistaken search for drugs and guns.

Anna Jakymec, 84, was just going to bed at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday when the heavily armed officers broke through the back and front doors at their modest yellow-brick bungalow a few blocks east of Midway Airport. Her ailing husband, Andrij, 89, had already been in bed for hours.

Their son, Andrew, said they were terrified by what they thought was a home invasion.

The errant raid was a public relations embarrassment for Sheriff Tom Dart, who is mulling a run for mayor of Chicago.

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