At about 1:00 a.m. on April 10, 2024, more than a dozen Lee and Pender County sheriff's deputies stormed the Willard, North Carolina home of Alisa Carr and Avery Marshall while the couple and their 9- and 16-year-old children slept. Officers shattered a glass door, barged through others, shouted profanities, detonated flashbang grenades inside the house, and pointed military-grade firearms at every member of the family, reinjuring Avery's recently operated-on back and triggering heart palpitations in Alisa. They were hunting Joseph Clark Jr., a suspect accused of breaking into cars and stealing property from them — investigators had connected Clark's cellphone to the general area near the home, and officers spotted a Nissan parked outside that they assumed belonged to him. According to court filings, that Nissan was a different model, roughly a decade older, carried a different VIN and license plate, and was registered to Alisa Carr herself — not the suspect, who was never at the house and was never found there. Officers kept searching anyway even after one was recorded saying "that ain't the car." Carr and Marshall sued with the Institute for Justice, and on August 6, 2026, a federal judge denied qualified immunity to both the detective who swore false information to obtain the warrant and the officers who executed the raid, ruling they violated knock-and-announce requirements by breaching the home less than a minute after arriving. The case can now proceed toward trial.
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Commentary: More than a dozen officers with military gear terrorized two sleeping children over a parked car that didn't even match the suspect's — wrong make, wrong model, wrong decade, wrong owner — and one of them said so out loud before they kept tearing the house apart anyway.
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