Galveston Police Chief Doug Balli has been placed on administrative leave after a SWAT raid to the wrong house led to a teen falsely accused of murder.
family is calling for justice after their home was raided by the SWAT team looking for a murder suspect who wasn’t even the right person. Now, the police chief is on leave over a lapse in communication over the incident.
"I literally kept asking my son, ‘What is going on? What is going on?’ I had no idea," said Erika Rios. "And he’s like, ‘Mom, I don’t know, I don’t know.’ We were just in a panic.""I was in there for a couple minutes," she said. "I was still having anxiety attacks, and I needed to throw up. They let me step out, and they then told me they were only looking for Cameron, nothing else.
The incident has led Chief Doug Balli to be placed on a 10-day administrative leave while an internal investigation into his conduct plays out. The City of Galveston is also conducting a separate investigation into failure of communication which led to the SWAT raid.FOX 26 reached out to Cameron Vargas' family, and his mother Terry Borrell sent a statement which reads,
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