My next door neighbor (who I can't stand) was under survelience, unbeknownst to him or me. I had just arrived home from work, took my dog outside to run off some energy before settling down. While we were outside my neighbor pulled into his driveway. As he was driving up his driveway, his golden retriever ran down the drive way to greet him. My dog saw the neighbor's dog and ran over to play. I had to walk over and collect my dog. Of course, I speak to the neighbor, his son, and his son's friend, who were all sitting out there when I got to my dog. 1 hour later I am sitting in my house, with my backdoor open and my dog out in the fenced in backyard. I hear someone shout "sheriff's department" over and over. I walk out my backdoor and a cop is walking down through my backyard next to the fence. He says "did someone run through here?" I said not that I could see, I was sitting in the house so someone could have ran through and I wouldn't have seen them. He asks me to step outside of the gate. I open up the gate and before I can even get out of it to close it SWAT literally jumps out of the bushes. In a blink I was on my knees, in handcuffs, with assault rifles in my face. They say they SAW a person run INTO my house. I tell them no one is in my house, they call me a fucking liar. Start asking me what is going on next door, what are they selling, how much am I buying, etc. etc. I tell them I have NOTHING to do with the idiots next door, of course I am a "goddamned liar". Next thing you know they are busting through my house kicking in doors and going through every thing. They find a pack of rolling papers and 2 joints worth of buds in my bathroom drawer, make me flush it, and leave.
Two things, one they said they saw someone they had a warrant for run into my house, straight up lie, especially since he wasnt there.
The other thing was because my backdoor was open and my gate (that they asked me to step outside of) they had access to my house.
The timing was an absolute miracle. My daughter and her husband had just moved back into my house with their baby and I cleaned out my grow stuff for a few months during that time.
With the two joints, they were pushing me as hard as they could, literally yelling in my face and calling me names trying to get me to pin it on my neighbors. They were completely convinced I had bought a dime bag from them. That is how I figured out apparently they were watching when I went next door to collect my dog, dumb ass cops thought I was going over to make a buy.
It also made me a lot more confident starting my grow room back up. Living in a small town they all know they have been IN my house and nothing was there, that should take care of any suspicion.