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Guns, drugs found after raid, shooting

Austin police found less than a gram of marijuana, less than a gram of powdered cocaine and

more than a dozen guns at the home of a 72-year-old man who they said shot and wounded an

officer early Monday when they tried to search his house for evidence of drug trafficking,according to a search warrant and a list of seized items A handwritten list that officers left at the

home of !eli" #osales said police also took miscellaneous pills from the house at $%&2 'lu()errace in *outheast Austin, along with scales and (aggies #osales+ attorney said his client+s son

is a gun collector who stored weapons there

olice served two search warrants at the house within hours Monday one for evidence of drug

trafficking and another after police said #osales shot officer #o(ert .enfer in the foot as he andother investigators tried to search the house A second officer, Aaron .ishop, then shot #osales in

the torso .enfer was treated and released from .rackenridge /ospital #osales was in critical

condition )uesday, his attorney said

0awyer 1avid ia, who is representing #osales+ family, made pu(lic the list officers left at thehouse 3nvestigators on )uesday had not filed documentation a(out what they seized as part of

the trafficking warrant at the )ravis 'ounty district clerk+s office, which is re4uired after a

warrant is served )he second search warrant - which police o(tained after the shooting to lookfor evidence for an attempted capital murder case against #osales - descri(ed why police initially

wanted to search the house for drugs

According to the search warrant affidavit, a 5concerned citizen5 told police that someone was

distri(uting crack cocaine from the house 3t said investigators searched the gar(age outside thehouse a couple of times this month and seized (aggies containing white powder that tested

positive for cocaine

6hen officers when to the house Monday morning, the affidavit said, officers announced their

presence and then counted out loud 5for a considera(le amount of time5 (efore forcing their waythrough the front door olice said they saw #osales raise and point a gun ia said that he is

concerned a(out how police conducted the raid and that they found what he considered only

small amounts of drugs

Austin police 'mdr *ean Manni" said that officers search for narcotics (ased on pro(a(le cause

for criminal activity and that it isn+t uncommon for investigators not to recover large 4uantities of

drugs

56hatever 4uantity is found doesn+t negate what pro(a(le cause was developed on the frontend,5 he said ia said #osales+ wife and son, who were at the house during the raid, disputed

much of what police leaders said happened, including that officers announced 5police5 and why

they were there

5ur concern, and what we (elieve happened, is that they didn+t do an ade4uate knock-and-announce,5 ia said

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8niversity of )e"as 0aw *chool professor George 1i" said that neither state nor federal laws

esta(lish how long officers must wait after knocking on the door of a house (efore making a

forced entry 3n a noted case, the 8* *upreme 'ourt ruled that police had waited long enoughwhen they delayed entry %9 to 2& seconds (ecause they had reason to think a suspect was trying

to (lock them from entering or was destroying evidence

Police search house where teen found dead

)he day after a %$-year-old girl was found dead in a :effery *treet house, police were searchingfor answers olice descri(ed ;icole .rewington as a runaway from .unnell who died

6ednesday at a home where she had (een staying *he was an eighth-grader last year at /olly

/ill Middle *chool /er death is (eing treated as suspicious while police await to"icology resultsand medical e"aminers reports olice on )hursday e"ecuted a search warrant at the house where

.rewington was last seen alive late )uesday night and where her (ody was discovered nearly si"

hours later

A %$-year-old kid died here, 1aytona .each police 1etective *gt #o(ert )aylor said 6e takethat very seriously olice said later they were not searching the house for a gun or other weapon

(ecause there were no outward signs of trauma to the girls (ody 3nstead, police spokesman *gt

Al )olley said, investigators were looking for any type of drugs or paraphernalia that she mayhave had access to

.ar(ara *arniak, 9&, who lives in the house with her %9-year-old daughter, was not at home

when detectives (roke open her front door with the search warrant at 2 pm )hursday )he state

1epartment of 'hildren < !amilies also sent an investigator *arniak pulled up in a white sedan,

watching from her driveway as detectives com(ed through her house wearing ru((er gloves *hedeclined to comment ;eigh(ors said they have often complained to police and other officials

a(out late-night activity at the house )hey said .rewington had (een staying at the house forless than a week )olley declined to say what, if any, evidence was found in the house /e said

someone in the house had made contact with at least one of .rewingtons parents the day (efore

she died to notify them the girl was staying there, according to preliminary report

)hey were una(le to come down, )olley said