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08-08-2008, 08:28 PM
Berwyn Heights mayor denounces police tactics
By Doug Donovan | Sun reporter
8:18 PM EDT, August 7, 2008
When the shooting stopped, two dogs lay dead. A mayor sat in his boxers, hands bound behind his back. His handcuffed mother-in-law was sprawled on the kitchen floor, lying beside the body of one of the family pets that police had killed before her eyes.
After the raid, Prince George's County police officials who burst into the home of Berwyn Heights' mayor last week seized the same unopened package of marijuana that an undercover officer had delivered an hour earlier.
What police left behind was a house stained with blood and a trail of questions about their conduct. No other evidence of illegal activity was found, and no one was arrested at Mayor Cheye Calvo's home in this small bedroom community near College Park.
This week Prince George's police arrested two men for orchestrating a plot to deliver marijuana to the addresses of unsuspecting recipients -- among them, Calvo's wife, Trinity Tomsic.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/teaser/2008-08/41489272-07115907.jpg<br><b>In this undated photo provided by Cheye Calvo, he and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, walk their Labradors</b>
More (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-mayor0807,0,4563211.story)
By Doug Donovan | Sun reporter
8:18 PM EDT, August 7, 2008
When the shooting stopped, two dogs lay dead. A mayor sat in his boxers, hands bound behind his back. His handcuffed mother-in-law was sprawled on the kitchen floor, lying beside the body of one of the family pets that police had killed before her eyes.
After the raid, Prince George's County police officials who burst into the home of Berwyn Heights' mayor last week seized the same unopened package of marijuana that an undercover officer had delivered an hour earlier.
What police left behind was a house stained with blood and a trail of questions about their conduct. No other evidence of illegal activity was found, and no one was arrested at Mayor Cheye Calvo's home in this small bedroom community near College Park.
This week Prince George's police arrested two men for orchestrating a plot to deliver marijuana to the addresses of unsuspecting recipients -- among them, Calvo's wife, Trinity Tomsic.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/teaser/2008-08/41489272-07115907.jpg<br><b>In this undated photo provided by Cheye Calvo, he and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, walk their Labradors</b>
More (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-mayor0807,0,4563211.story)