FBI Storms Wrong Home In East Charlotte

An east Charlotte woman who's going through cancer treatment said she was startled early Wednesday morning when federal agents burst into her apartment searching for suspects in a drug trafficking ring.

"It was a case of mistaken identity," Rosie Lee Bright told Eyewitness News.

But Federal Bureau of Investigation agents didn't figure that out before they ordered her to lie on the floor and handcuffed her.

"I did ask them, ‘What happened, what happened,’ and they said it was a drug bust," Bright said.

She said the only drugs she had in the apartment on Reddman Road were to help with her breast cancer treatments.

Agents later learned that the suspects they were looking for were actually in the apartment next door. They arrested two men who they said are part of a heroin trafficking ring that's been operating in Mecklenburg and Gaston counties.

A spokeswoman for the FBI told Eyewitness News that the address mix-up appears to have been an honest mistake since agents had been working on the assumption they were targeting the right apartment.

Bright said once they realized their mistake, agents apologized and offered to pay any medical bills she might have because of the raid.