A woman wins $3.8 million verdict after SWAT team searches wrong home based on Find My iPhone app

Published March 4, 2024 4:39 pm

By COLLEEN SLEVIN
Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.8 million jury verdict. The verdict for Ruby Johnson announced Monday came in a lawsuit brought under a new Colorado law that allows people to sue police over violations of their state constitutional rights. Her lawsuit alleges that police got a search warrant for her home using the Find My app. The owner of a stolen truck with an iPhone and guns inside tracked the phone to Johnson’s home using the app. The owner then passed that information on to police.

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