Journalists get into the home of the shooters...

[-CarlHungus-]

WTF.

Someone really F'd up here. You've got people taking pictures and messing with an active crime scene. People posting photos of the grandmothers ID and social security card. Other random passport photos found in the house.

RIP CBS and MSNBC legal team. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

 

[herdit44]

 

[-CarlHungus-]

This is crazy.

Someone is going to be in a lot of trouble here.

Popsicle guy will be a new crime scene meme.

 

[herdit44]

This is crazy.

Someone is going to be in a lot of trouble here.

Popsicle guy will be a new crime scene meme.

apparently, the guy claims it is a screwdriver, not a popsicle...either way, yeah, someone is in trouble.

 

[-CarlHungus-]

As an aside...if the Mom (shooters mother) had her social security card and driver's license there then maybe she did live there. Has there been confirmation she lived there?

I don't know much (read: anything) about bomb making - but how could you live there and not know something fishy was up?

 

[herdfan429]

FBI is claiming that its investigation is over so its no longer an active crime scene.

 

[-CarlHungus-]

FBI is claiming that its investigation is over so its no longer an active crime scene.

I saw that. Though other reports were saying the local PD said it's still not complete.

Maybe I'm missing something. Seems like an awfully fast investigation from the FBI and lots of stuff left behind. I'm not in law enforcement so I don't know the protocol here, but it seems like you'd go through that place with a fine tooth comb and take some things out of there back to a lab or something. I guess you can take pictures of all that stuff and be out of there relatively quickly. Surprising to hear the FBI say they were done.

 

[-CarlHungus-]

FBI is now officially considering this terrorism.

If that really was not an active crime scene when reporters went in, then that's got to be some kind of record speed for investigating a crime scene for a terror act, right? Maybe not? Like I said, I'm not in law enforcement, so I hate to speculate on something I know pretty much nothing about.

In the movies they'd be ripping up carpet and looking behind the walls though, too. Probably would take those ID's and passports out of the house too.

 

[herdfan429]

I agree it seems quick but if the original subpoena was only for certain items then their investigation could have theoretically been over pretty quick. Now however if there were to be a second or third investigation and evidence was needed from the apartment it would be completely contaminated and any lawyer worth his weight in a salt would have every bit of evidence thrown out.

 

[ThunderCat98]

It would be quite easy to complete the search of an apartment in a couple of hours. When you execute a search warrant, you don't get to take anything and everything in sight. You get to seize those specific items articulated and requested in the warrant application/affidavit that are reasonably related to the criminal act(s) at issue.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

It would be quite easy to complete the search of an apartment in a couple of hours. When you execute a search warrant, you don't get to take anything and everything in sight. You get to seize those specific items articulated and requested in the warrant application/affidavit that are reasonably related to the criminal act(s) at issue.

And there were probably twenty agents there to do it.