A family is furious that police searching for drugs allegedly held by their adult son left their house in shambles.
Amin Rangi, 15, said doors on his house on 53rd Avenue in Vancouver were ripped off their hinges and clothes pulled out of drawers on Friday -- even though his brother, 23-year-old Charanjit Rangi, lived in a separate basement suite.
"The police are looking for so many people (involved in gang activity) they don't know what to do," said Amin. "They're looking in all the wrong places."
Amin said his family estimated that the damage would cost $20,000 -- and he said he wanted the police to pay for it.
But Lindsey Houghton of the Vancouver Police said this was a routine search -- and said police have the right to go wherever they believe the target of their warrant might have access to.
"This was a search warrant on the house and we had grounds to be there," he said. Houghton, adding that if the family has a problem with the search they can file a complaint.
CTV News obtained the warrant that allowed the search -- and the warrant says that police were granted access to the house to search for cocaine as part of an drug trafficking investigation into Charanjit Rangi.
Rangi was arrested that night but released. Court records show that Rangi has previously been charged with assault.
Charanjit Rangi said the police shouldn't have entered his parents' house. But he denied that he deserved any blame for the search -- or the problems it had caused his family.
"I've got no charges. It all got dropped. I got a straight, clean record," he said.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Jon Woodward
