In 2012, under Obama's asset forfeiture policy, my house was *RAIDED* by the FBI.

They held me at gunpoint for 12 hours.
They legally robbed my entire house of any electronics.
They only showed a warrant at the end.
They arrested me for weed.

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Held my belongings for 6 months
Never apologized, just told me I could get my things.
Had to pay for a lawyer for the weed charge.
almost lost my job as I worked from home and they took my work computer.
PTSD upgrade thanks to this
Tapped my phones for 2 years

Reason?

They thought I was the *HEAD* of anon based on a username similar to a well-known hacker in ANON.

*SIMILAR* username what??

Yep.

This was legal under Obama's Civil Asset forfeiture policy.

They need the smallest amount of evidence to look for something more. Luckily I was clean minus the one nugget of marijuana.

Also, just for clarity, the FBI did not arrest me for marijuana.

they called the local sheriff and they came out and arrested for weed.

The case was dropped after hiring a lawyer for 10k bc the cop forgot to read Miranda Rights.

The judge lectured me on the dangers of weed.

My door was broken and the FBI refused to pay for it because it was more expensive than normal doors.

It had glass on each side that they broke when they busted it down.

Two years until they finally paid. All my electronics had FBI stickers on them too.

Just to add since people ask, it was 6 a.m. on a Tuesday.

I woke up to loud knocking on my front door. I went to inspect and locked my dogs in my room. As I approached the door they knocked it down, it was dark and I thought I was being robbed.

I stood ready to fight.

They told me to get on the ground, and I cussed and told them no. A lady sweeped my feet out from under me and held some kind of AR/ak type gun at my head.

They handcuffed me and put me on the couch. My roommate was there too and we were both very confused.

We weren't allowed to talk to each other and we're both interrogated in different rooms.

He's asked a lot about my involvement in the early days of Reddit and on IRC.

Still I thought maybe it was about torrenting movies.

One final thing, when I drove out to pick up my stuff, which was somewhere in Northern Virginia. Maybe Ashburn or Manassas?

anyway my Xbox had a game in it that didn't belong to me and my tablet was fully charged after sitting in an evidence locker for 6 months....

The cutest thing was my phones were clearly tapped because you could hear it.

I had a house phone because I worked from home.

my grandmother would call and spend 10 minutes calling whoever was on the line a "fucking pig."

I had to tell her to STOP.