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Palo Alto, CA — When Joel Domingo Alejo fell asleep in his backyard, he never expected to wake up to a police K-9 shredding his legs to pieces. Unfortunately for Alejo, however, that is exactly what happened. Cops were looking for a kidnapper and when they spotted Alejo — who was innocent and sleeping on his own property — that was good enough.

The incident unfolded on June 25 of last year when officers with the Mountain View police department were searching for an alleged kidnapper in Alejo’s neighborhood. During the search, Mountain View police requested assistance from the Palo Alto police department’s K-9 team as they thought the suspect may be hiding somewhere in the neighborhood.

As police went door to door, they searched nearby homes and could not find their man. When they went to Alejo’s home, they asked his niece, who answered the front door, if they could search the backyard. Knowing they had done nothing wrong, his niece let them in the side gate. In the report released by police, the incident unfolded as follows:

In the early morning hours of June 25, 2020, personnel from the Palo Alto Police Department (including a canine team) responded to Mountain View to assist Mountain View Police Department officers in locating a felony domestic violence / kidnapping suspect who Mountain View Police believed had fled into a residential neighborhood.  After obtaining consent from an occupant of a home to search their yard for the suspect, officers entered the side yard and immediately encountered a person on the ground inside an open storage shed. Believing the person to be the hiding felony suspect, officers used the police canine to assist in detaining the person. Further investigation revealed the person was not the suspect and in fact was not connected to the criminal incident that prompted the search.........read and watch more......