CAMDEN -- A Bridgeton resident is suing a Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office detective in federal court claiming the police wrongly searched her home.

The lawsuit, which only names Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office detective Jose Torres Jr., states that Bridgeton Police Department's Tactical Entry Team entered Mary Bridges' Spruce Street home at 12:24 p.m. on Nov. 16, 2015, to execute a search warrant for a man who was believed to be selling controlled substances illegally.



When the unit searched the home for the items listed on the search warrant, they did not find anything in the house, Bridges, who is 84, claims.

The lawsuit states the Prosecutor Office's Organized Crime Bureau was investigating the man and believed he was selling drugs out of the house. The claim also says that Torres sought out the search warrant on the address where Bridges lives. It was later determined that the man had no connection at all to the house or Bridges, the lawsuit claims



Although she was not injured during the incident, Bridges claims she "has suffered and continues to suffer emotional distress, anxiety, fear of home invasion by the police and mental anguish."

Bridges' lawyer, Peter Korber of Korber Law Firm and Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae did not want to comment on the lawsuit.

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