The same reporters that can't tell a semi auto rifle from an assault rifle are the same ones that don't understand criminal law. Is it really a problem that they didn't find a specific contraband listed in the warrant but found other contraband? We also seem to be getting stuck on the amount too. Do you have a gram of coke and 18g of MJ at your house? Wait, don't answer that.
Perhaps the case officer relied on an unreliable CI? I guess they won't use him/her again huh? The problem I see with that is the whole thing started with a neighbor complaining. I already asked but I will ask again - What is HPD Narcotics suppose to do with the complaint? Ignore it? Check the tax rolls and run a TCIC/NCIC check on the owner? They got no record so we'll tell the complainant too bad so sad? I mean it's not like other people could reside there right? They did the logical thing and sent a CI to the house and according to the affidavit, the CI made a buy. Now the ball is rolling and off to the judge you go with the PC for the warrant. You don't stop the ball rolling downhill if you want to send cases to the DA and show your unit supervisor you aren't sitting on your a**.
Did the neighbor get it wrong? Maybe they were just users and not sellers though they did sell to the CI (if the CI was being truthful). The next Q would be - What does the CI get out of it from lying? I imagine that is what IA and OIS is trying to determine rather than just looking at the warrant service and saying the cops screwed up because 2 people with no CH are dead and we just found a lil' contraband.
