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ADDRESS BUT DID THE SUSPECT LIVED HERE THAT’S LIVE HERE? THIS WAS THE FRONT DOOR. MASON PRUETT SAYS HE FOUND IT AND HIS BACK DOOR SITTING WIDE OPEN WHEN HE RETURNED HOME FROM WORK. >> UNACCEPTABLE. BARRY HE HAD NOT BEEN ROBBED. : INSTEAD, POLICE RAIDED THIS HOUSE IN THE 400 BLOCK OF NORTH KENWOOD AVENUE. PRUETT SAYS NO ONE WAS HERE WHEN THE RAID HAPPENED. HE SAYS WHEN HE GOT HOME FROM WORK FRIDAY, HE FOUND DOOR FRAMES BUSTED, CLOTHES SCATTERED ON THE FLOOR, CLOSETS AND CABINETS EMPTIED. BALTIMORE CITY POLICE SAY THEY DID GO INTO THE HOME, BUT THEY SECURED BOTH DOORS BEFORE LEAVING. THEY SAY FROM INFORMATION THEY HAD INCLUDING FROM SEVERAL DATABASES, THEY BELIEVED A SUSPECT IN TWO ROBBERIES LIVED IN THE HOUSE. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR STOLEN ITEMS HE MAY HAVE STASHED THERE. PRUETT SAYS OFFICERS LEFT THIS UNSIGNED UNDATED SEARCH WARRANT. >> I DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT, THERE IS NO SIGNATURES, IT IS A BUNCH OF JUST, LIKE HIM A MESS. BARRY WHEN HE FINALLY GOT TO : TALK TO AN OFFICER ON THE PHONE ABOUT THE RAID HE WAS TOLD THIS. >> THE FIGURED OUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE INVESTIGATION HE DOES NOT STAY HERE IN THAT HE MADE A JOKE, IF HE DID, HE IS SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR. BARRY POLICE TELL US THEY : ARRESTED THE SUSPECT THE DAY BEFORE THE RAID. JARI HERNANDEZ IS CHARGED WITH ROBBERY ASSAULT AND THEFT. IN THE AFFIDAVIT REQUESTING THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE WARRANT, DETECTIVE DONALD WALDRON SAID HE BELIEVES THAT MR. HERNANDEZ HAS FRUITS OF THE CRIME OF ROBBERY WITHIN HIS DWELLING AT THE KENWOOD AVENUE ADDREESS. BUT PRUETT SAYS HE HAS LIVED HERE FOR A YEAR AND A HALF AND THIS WAS NOT THE SUSPECT’S RESIDENC >> THE SCARY THING IS, IF I WAS IN HERE SLEEPING, WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED? BARRY: WE ALSO ASKED POLICE ABOUT THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE WARRANT POLICIES. A SPOKESMAN SAYS THEY LEAVE AN UNSIGNED WARRANT IF NO ONE IS AT HOME AND IF SOMEONE IS IN THE HOUSE, THEY SHOW A SIGNED WARRANT TO THAT PERSO, TO THE OCCUPANT AND THEY LEAVE AN UNSIGNED WARRANT AND THE SIGNED WARRANT IS RETURNED TO A JUDGE.

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Baltimore police executed a no-knock search-and-seizure warrant Friday at a Canton house that, residents said, had nothing to do with the suspect in the investigation.Mason Pruett said he felt helpless and shook up. At first, he thought someone had broken into his home and robbed the place. He later found out city police had raided it.Police were searching for evidence at a house in the 400 block of North Kenwood Avenue in connection with a robbery investigation. No one was home at the time when the warrant was served.Police said they were searching for items stolen in two different robberies. Police said they believe they had the right house based on information from several databases listing the suspect's address.Pruett said the robbery suspect did not live at the house, and officers did not find any of the stolen items.Pruett said he returned home from work and found the door frames busted, clothes scattered on the floor, closets and cabinets emptied."The thing that alarmed me the most was this, one of the doors they didn't use forced entry on, and it was left completely open," Pruett said. "We had to take the outside door ... (which had) battering-ram marks ... we had to put it inside."Police said they secured both the front and back doors before they left.Pruett said officers left an unsigned, undated search warrant."I didn't understand it. There were no signatures, just a great bunch of mess," Pruett said.When Pruett finally got to talk to an officer on the phone, "He said they figured out halfway through the investigation that he (the suspect) doesn't live here, and then they made a joke and said, 'If he did, he must have been sleeping on the floor.'"Police told the 11 News I-Team that officers arrested the suspect the day before the raid. Jari Hernandez is charged with robbery assault and theft.In an affidavit requesting the search-and-seizure warrant, Detective Donald Waldron said he believes that "Mr. Hernandez has fruits of the crime of robbery within his dwelling (on) North Kenwood Avenue."But Pruett said he has lived at the house for a year and a half, and this was not the suspect's residence."They basically just started describing the kind of situation like they caught him, and I'm an outstanding citizen, and that they were sorry that this happened and that, basically, they weren't held responsible because I'm not a victim of crime," Pruett said.The I-Team also asked police about their search warrant procedures. A spokesman said they leave an unsigned warrant when no one is home. If someone is in the house, they show a signed warrant to the occupant and then leave a copy of the unsigned warrant. The signed warrant is then returned to a judge.