Bondsman Forced Their Way Into Our Home For Someone That Used To Live Here 4 Years Ago

Location: Minnesota

Just as the title states, last night at 11:30pm, we heard some super loud pounding on the door. I was trying to ignore tbh and hoped it would go away, but it persisted. Then my dad goes, here we go again, and this guy came about a week and a half ago and completely ransacked the entire house, checked under covers, turned on lights and everything and my parents just kind of just let it happen under duress at least. The guy “looked” official to them, like a proper uniform and he was threatening acts of violence if we didn’t him in. I came around to the front door and yelled “do you have a warrent?” and this dude was searching on his phone for a fake second, (are those digital nowadays?), acting like he had some legal say to barge his way and that we were obstructing justice by not letting him in. We said we were going to call the cops and he goes go right ahead.

My dad steps back from the door and calls, my mom is at the front door, I walk away to speak to the responder on the phone, and I turn around just to find that this guy has barged past my mom and into the house. Just like he did when he first came about a week ago. My dad started yelling obcesecties atp, because this guy just barged past my mom without showing us any documentation and started trying to go through the house. There was a scrawny little dude with him, not in uniform trying to go around into places, but we stopped him.

The guy called himself a bondsman, and was like I can arrest you guys for obstructing justice, yadayada and threatened to use his gun/act of violence because we didn’t want him coming into our house. Like bro, you are not a cop? Are they able to do stuff like this? He was like “I don’t want to do this” Liar, we all know you take sick pleasure in power play like this and he literally goes in the next breath “this is fun for me, and I’ll see you again tomorrow night” when my dad tells him to never come back here again, because this is the second time they’ve barged their way in to find the guy they’re looking for (my brother who I went no contact with 2.5 years ago that I haven’t seen for even longer), and that he doesn’t live here. He was like until you give me a lead on his location, information about his current relationships, we’ll keep coming back.

I’m just like, obviously if you can’t find the guy with all your little technologies, we can’t either. Like what do you want us to do? Like I get he did whatever he did, but if coming here 2 times didn’t make you find him, what makes you think that you’ll find him here a third time? It doesn’t help that the guy in question lists this as his legal address, but from my understanding, barging in without showing a warrent is not allowed, like police officers, enforcers of the law can’t even do that, what’s this fake cop wannabe? He’s relying on uninformed people to barge his way in and force this.

The police officers end up arriving 10 mins later, the dudes were already done ransacking everything on the main floor, gave the most generic nickname and phone number and said call me when you have more information on your son (you know the one that we hardly context and have no idea of his whereabouts for at least the last 2 years) Apparently, this happens and because the brother lists this as his address and hasn’t “legally” changed it even though he hasn’t lived here in over 5 years, they can still knock on our door. The cops said that we can deny them entry, and if they don’t refuse to leave, then it becomes a legal issue where the cops can come into play. So a whole lot of nothing, tbh, it doesn’t help that my family let them in the first time without letting me knowing, so it set a lame precedent that we would allow this consistently, I mean they are 2 for 2. My parents are older, and their son has committed plenty of crimes in the past, so officers knocking on their door isn’t something they’re unfamiliar with, unfortunately. He’s been in prison at least 2 times, and but we’ve never had an issue with bondsman knocking. But the police officers were like invest in cameras, no trespassing signs, etc. Since this location is listed as his legal address, they can come here, but the home owner doesn’t have to allow them entry.

My biggest issue is the noise and the odd hours. They don’t bother using the doorbell, they just immediately start pounding and shouting to create a false sense of alarm/urgency, it’s super disturbing to the neighborhood as well. This isn’t something I want to deal with at midnight when I have to be up for work 5. My dad had a PET scan appointment checking for cancer spread at 6:15am today, like this is truly the last thing we need. And all the officers had to say to us, was that we don’t have to allow them in?? Which I get, but I’m like if I don’t know the whereabouts of this guy, are just supposed to be subjected to this lunatic banging on our door every night until this guy gets a crumb of info we don’t have for him?? Like this is ridiculous. I’m getting a front door ring doorbell, I don’t even like ring because they sell data and stuff, but I need something that will work and withstand Minnesota winters. I’m thinking of getting a few “no trespassing signs”, and they’re really going to look ugly in our neighborhood, since this is such a friendly neighborhood. And some more cameras with flood lights on the exterior walls of the house. I hate that we have to do and spend all this money, when my dad has worked his whole life trying to move us into a safe neighborhood only for us to have to resort to these measures.

From my understanding, in a way, for the last 2 times, we didn’t explicitly deny them entry, even though we were yelling at them to not coming, my dad mainly????, and they didn’t provide a warrant, so we can’t pursue legal action. But for future visits, what are some things to keep in mind? Is there specific language to use? I don’t even want them touching our door, I wasn’t even going to have anyone approach the door, I was just going to speak from the ring doorbell and just yell, “This is private property, you do not have a warrant to search, if you do not leave, we’ll call police officers and take legal action” I’m sorry if this is crappily written, I’ve had 2 hours of sleep last night and this is the most adrenaline I’ve had in my system all year. Please give me advice, would this suffice? Are there any more precautions to take? I understand that my brother lists this as his address, I just don’t think he took the time to update it in the last 5-7 years, he doesn’t really care for legal things like if you haven’t gathered lol, but is there some way we can get this on file? To not disturb my parents home for a guy that hasn’t even checked up on his parents in the last 3 years?

Edit: Grammatical errors