Cops Raid Innocent Family's Home After Stolen Car Found In Street In Front Of Their House, Say They'd Do It Again

A Jeanerette family is scared to sleep in their own beds after police allegedly raided their home early this morning.

Nancy Landry said she was woken up by bright flashing blue lights and heard voices outside of her bedroom window early Sunday morning. She said her husband opened the front door to see what it was and was greeted by Jeanerette Police who allegedly had their guns drawn.

The two were put into the back of police cars.

"I had no idea what was going on," Landry said.

The police then supposedly kicked in a bedroom door and woke up her two sons and one of their girlfriends, handcuffed them and also put them into police cars.

Landry said at no point did she ever think that watching her children being treated that way would be so traumatizing.

"At first I thought we were getting robbed, then I saw it was cops," Erin Broussard, one of the Landry boy's girlfriend, who was at the home at the time said. "I didn't know what was going on."

Landry said police would not tell them what was going on. And it was not until a while later that she found out that a stolen car involved in a robbery at the Family Dollar store was left unattended running in front of their home.

"Whoever did it got away, because they were wasting their time over here with innocent people, and they knew they were innocent," Landry said.

Martin said his office heard reports that the stolen car from the Family Dollar Store was located at the Landry's home earlier that day. He said he is concerned with finding the person who robbed the store and injured the clerk, the safety of his officers and he would react the same way if the Landry's needed assistance.

He tells KATC he understands the Landrys' concerns, but he would do things the same way again.