Illiterate Bounty-hunters, aided by befuddled cops, try to invade wrong household in the middle of the night

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Sikeston, Mississippi police lead a couple of "bounty-hunters" who it turns out were neither licensed nor in possession of the right name of their suspects, to the home of David and Jenny Carnell, in the middle of the night. whom they proceed to terrorize at gunpoint.

KFS-TV reports

How would you feel if someone showed up at your house in the middle of the night demanding to come inside?

A Sikeston couple says they were not about to take a chance and open the door especially when the strangers would not identify themselves.

Now that couple wants their story heard that the people at the their door turned out to be bounty hunters from Mississippi.

The couple ended up being the wrong targets.  Now those bounty hunters face charges themselves.

Jeremy McNeill was taken into custody in Arkansas.  Tim Fugate was arrested in Scott County.  The pleaded not guilty to acting without a license in court Wednesday.

"We hear this bam, bam, bam at our back door!" said David Carnell. 

That's how he says the most terrifying night of his life began, with a stranger banging at his door.

Thanks to bibiliophile


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