DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa county faces a lawsuit after five of its sheriff’s deputies were accused of confiscating and destroying property while executing a search warrant at a wrong address.
The Des Moines Register reports that Michael Owings found Van Buren County deputies at his home in June when he arrived with his mother and girlfriend. A lawsuit alleges that Owings told officers they were in the wrong place, and one of them replied, “We own this property.”
A judge granted the deputies’ request for a search warrant at a Douds, Iowa home, in connection to a drug investigation, but the lawsuit contends that the correct address was about one-third of a mile from Owings’ mobile home.
Van Buren County Sheriff Dan Tedrow declined to comment.
