SMALL TOWN SENDS ARMORED VEHICLE, 24 OFFICERS TO COLLECT DEBT FROM 75-YEAR-OLD (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 19:40

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An armored military vehicle and 24 armed police officers: That’s what the sheriff’s department in a small Wisconsin town used to collect a civil judgement from a 75-year-old man, who has filed a $4.5 million lawsuit against the town over the incident.

Marathon County sheriff's deputies went to Roger Hoeppner’s property in the town of Stettin to serve a writ of execution against the 75-year-old for the $86,000 he and his family owed the municipality.

The police expected to have to seize and remove tractors and wooden pallets to pay the judgment, which is why so many deputies were on hand, Sheriff's Capt. Greg Bean told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Hoeppner is known to be argumentative, he added, but not dangerous.

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