LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A home near Durango Casino is boarded up with $25,000 in damages after a SWAT raid.
The people who live there say they have nothing to do with the person Metro was looking for, someone who has not lived in the home since they moved in in 2020, more than five years ago.
Metro told FOX5, last Wednesday they served three search warrants simultaneously looking for a human trafficker.
“I just saw like the military tank on my driveway, and I couldn’t figure out what was happening,” recounted Kim Layson who watched the SWAT raid at her home unfold on her cell phone through her home security cameras.
Layson says she drove there as fast as she could.
“I saw… my garage pulled out of my house and a bunch of detectives and SWAT vehicles on scene and police and I couldn’t figure out. I was really shocked. I didn’t know what to think. I just wanted the answers,” Layson shared.
Layson was questioned for 45 minutes before being allowed inside to see the damage. The front door was knocked down, the garage door left crumpled in the driveway.
“They also shot the cameras out, so there’s holes in the stucco,” added Stephen Ranieri, Layson’s boyfriend.
The couple wants Metro to pay for all the damage. They say at first, they were told that was not going to happen.
“The phone call lasted about 10 seconds. It was like, you know, ‘Are you going to do anything to cover this? This event happened yesterday,’ and I just got a, ‘No, we don’t cover that,’” Layson reported.
That is when they turned to social media and FOX5 started asking questions the next day. The family says Metro now has agreed to pay.
“It put a lot of pressure on them to kind of make it right or just revisit the whole situation,” Layson argued.
Metro sent FOX5 this statement:
“It’s unfair how they handled this whole situation. They could have done a lot more due diligence and more precise research before they damaged someone’s property. I feel like it can happen to any innocent family,” Layson contended.
LVMPD tells FOX5 they currently investigating this incident internally.
The family says after they were initially told Metro wouldn’t pay for the damage, they contacted their homeowner’s insurance who also said they wouldn’t pay.
FOX5 got an extensive report on the suspected human trafficker Metro was after during the simultaneous raids on two homes and a business. Wei Wang was arrested at another home also in the southwest valley.
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