The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Monday he “feels horrible” about — and personally apologized for — scaring an elderly couple when sheriff’s police officers broke into the wrong Southwest Side home in a mistaken search for guns and drugs.
The Thursday night raid was a rare and ill-timed embarrassment for Dart, who is running for re-election Nov. 2 while simultaneously gearing up to join the crowded field vying to replace Mayor Daley.
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Over the years, the sheriff’s office has been a political time bomb for occupants of that office, with a steady stream of jail breaks and corruption scandals.
What about the victims of this tyranny?
Andrij Jakymec, 89 was asleep and his 84-year-old wife, Anna, was getting ready for bed when nearly two dozen heavily-armed members of Dart’s police department broke down the front and back doors of their home near Midway Airport at around 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
The raid terrified the Jakymec’s, who had been taken from their homes in the Soviet Union as teenagers and put to work digging trenches as slaves for Adolf Hitler during World War II.
The work of the Cook County Sheriff.
