POLICE RAID TERRORIZES FAMILY

It was a raid gone wrong and a Mississauga man wants an apology from police.

Chris Mundreon, a 41yearold computer consultant, said police tore the
door off his Glen Erin Dr. home late Friday afternoon and rushed inside
with guns drawn when he was at work. His motherinlaw, wife and two young
children were at home.

Terrified, his wife called him at the office around dinner time and said
seven or eight officers had ``come charging into my house with guns and
said, `Don't move.' ''

He rushed home to find his door torn off the hinges, mud tracks on the
carpet, officers who ``went running upstairs, running downstairs they
were all over the place,'' and a questioning Metro police officer.

``(My wife) was trying to find out what the heck was going on,'' he said,
adding that his motherinlaw thought they were all going to be shot.

At one point, officers from Peel Region and Metro forces held his wife back
from her children, he said.

Police had a search warrant for the home and made the raid on the home, in
the Britannia Rd. W. and Winston Churchill Blvd. area, just after 5 p.m.

Mundreon said the officer in charge told him they were looking for
``hydroponics and drugs or something,'' but wouldn't be specific.

``I have never had anything like that in my background in my whole life,''
he said.

The family moved into the house on Glen Erin Dr. three months ago. Mundreon
said it had been empty for about two months before they moved in.

``It's been five months,'' he said. ``It's like, guys, you missed it by a
while. Check the phone records, check the hydro, check the gas. You'll see
it's in my name.''

Mundreon said police told him they had an informant who targeted his house.

``That's great, but does that mean if you have an informant you can just
bust into anyone's house?'' he said.

After discovering they had the wrong place, Mundreon said police apologized
to him. But he doesn't feel that's enough.

``To me, it's unacceptable that they can do that to someone without a damn
good reason. I want to know why this happened. There's got to be a public
apology.''

Mundreon is meeting tomorrow with Det. Dan Sheppard, from Metro's 51
Division, but it doesn't erase the emotional damage that has been done, he
said. ``My wife didn't sleep too well last night. Neither did my
motherinlaw.

``I've got neighbours to deal with now. We moved in here three months ago.
Three months later all these cop cars are outside my house and come busting
in. I know if I saw that with one of my neighbours what I'd be thinking.''

Sheppard said he was unwilling to comment on the incident until a meeting
with the inspector tomorrow.