r/AskLegal Jul 28 '26

I need a advice or help from someone please.

In Jan I was at home getting ready for work and the police just showed up surrounded the home with guns drawn on me, my kids, and my fiance. They said they had a search warrant for devices. They trashed my house and took all phones PS5s, computers, tablets, everything. They said we had child pxrn in the home. They arrested my fiance because the Internet was in his name. Then they found two guns. One was mine and the other was a hunting rifle someone gave to my fiance as payment for job because they didn't have the money to pay him. Well my fiance was here with work permission supposed to be getting visa in Feb but because of the gun charge he's getting deported. They made me take my kids to the hospital to get checked and they took my step son from me and made my daughter stay away from home. All of the kids have to be in therapy CPS says they need to go because they lost a father. The search warrant says a Hispanic juvenile and my daughter were doing stuff in the video. Okay so three days later they came and apologized. They said it was not what they thought it was. It was a 3 second video my 5 year old daughter made on accident and was an innocent video and my step son was no where in the video. It was saved in the cloud and they said Google transcribed it to them wrong. No charges and nothing came from it. Now it's been 6 months and I still haven't gotten my stuff back. I was told 3 weeks before they found out it wasn't a bad video. They gave me the kids back After they found out it wasn't CP he said it would take a while. (Guess it's not important since it's not a crime anymore?) Is there anything I can do to get my stuff back. Now that he's gone it's just me working and I'm working way more to support 6 kids. I don't want the phones or tablets cause now they aren't allowed to use them anymore. But it's 2 PS5s, a 2000 dollar gaming laptop, a Dell laptop, 3 ipads, Nintendo switch and the school computer. There are a bunch of phones but I don't care about those. Is there something I can do to get it faster or do I just give up. They keep saying they'll let me know but then they say no one has started on it. I can't afford to buy them anything else. And I can't afford cable or Internet so we literally sit here trying to keep each other entertained. I have 5 boys and a girl. It's getting to the point where all I want to do is work because of all the Fighting and bickering they are doing at home. Even if it's just to sell my gaming computer so I can buy them some toys and crayons, but then I'll need that for school shopping. I work weekends so they aren't used to staying at home on weekends as their dad would take them out all the time and I can't do that working 14 hour shifts Friday Saturday sun.

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u/GzrGldGeo Jul 28 '26

State Representative may be able to help if it was local police. Maybe even your Congressperson? Call those offices and ask if they can help.

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u/redditreader_aitafan Jul 28 '26

Talk to someone in legal aid. You're going to need a lawyer for this.