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| Oct 31, 2015 at 23:41 | comment | added | moonman239 | @feetwet: If they are executing a search warrant, they can presumably arrest you for interfering with a lawful investigation. The exact offense may not technically be called "interfering with a lawful investigation", though. It may be called "obstruction of justice". That's the minimum, I would think. They could probably tack on additional charges if any of the traps in question is designed to harm an officer. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 19:38 | comment | added | Will I Am | That is an interesting comment. If police has a search warrant, and you destroy something, are you in violation of the law even if they cannot reasonably prove that what you destroyed is pertinent to the investigation (.. also known as the HIllary effect). ? | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 1:20 | comment | added | feetwet♦ | That only tangentially addresses the question. They have a search warrant, not an arrest warrant, presumably because they need to find evidence to get an arrest warrant. So once I say, "You'll destroy any evidence -- and probably die -- if you try to search my premises," what can they do? (And note that I haven't specified how the house is trapped, so unless they proceed they don't even have evidence that I have boobytrapped it. All they have is a warning.) | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 22:50 | history | answered | moonman239 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |