A New York woman has filed a lawsuit against the New York Police Department because they keep barging into her home looking to arrest her husband- who is dead.
Brooklyn resident Karen Fennell claims police officers have stormed into her apartment at least four times since the beginning of the year asking for her husband, James E. Jordan, the New York Daily News reported. But Jordan, a 48-year-old former security guard, died on March 17, 2006. Fennell even posted her husband's death certificate on her front door, but the cops keep coming, according to the lawsuit obtained by the Daily News.
"Every time they do a sweep they come here," Fennell, 56, told the newspaper. "It's very upsetting."
The last time the NYPD showed up at her Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment was in April around Easter, claims the lawsuit, filed Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court. Though they claim to have an arrest warrant for Jordan, Fennell said the police have no warrant when they force their way into her apartment.
She even has her husband's death certificate attached to her front door, against the advice of her lawyer. But Fennell says the police won't leave her alone.
"He's dead so many years and they keep coming back," Ugochukwu Uzoh, Fennell's lawyer, told the newspaper.
Since they have been unable to arrest her husband, police have set their sights on Jordan's son, James Jordan Jr., the lawsuit alleges. The son and his friend were arrested in July 2013 for possession of a pocket knife during one of the searches.
"While at the precinct, James was interrogated by defendant officers, who kept asking James to provide them with information concerning drugs and guns in his neighborhood and concerning certain individuals who James doesn't even know," read the lawsuit, the Daily News reported.
The charges against Jordan Jr. and his friend were later dismissed. Fennell, Jordan Jr. and his friend Anthony Solis are seeking an unspecified amount of monetary damages for emotional distress.
The NYPD offered no immediate comment on the lawsuit, the Daily News reported.