Dude mistakenly arrested in his underwear

Lupe Cuellar and his wife Pilar were startled at 1:30 in the morning by a knocking at their door. The men at the door said they were cops, but Lupe wasn't sure. He said he'd heard about some burglaries in the neighborhood.

He told his wife to call police. She called 911. Pilar says the 911 operator told her, "We got a call that your husband was beating you."

The officers tried to kick down the door. She told her husband it was the police and he opened the door. Lupe says the police officer put him in a choke hold, dragged him to the kitchen, and threw him on the floor.

He said officers asked him why he didn't open the door and Lupe says he tried to explain he didn't know who they were. Lupe's wife and kids watched officers cuff him and haul him outside in nothing but his underwear.

Pilar says she pleaded with the police. "My husband doesn't abuse me," she says, "He doesn't beat me. I couldn't believe this was going on."

The police quickly realized there was no domestic violence at this house. They looked at me and said, 'Yeah, you're alright.' And they took off," Lupe recalls.

He went to a hospital, where a nurse called police to report what happened. A sergeant showed up and told the Cuellars' what had happened. "He told me the dispatcher gave police the wrong address," says Lupe.

The real domestic violence call was two houses down. Officers arrested another man for assault. Lupe says his daughter is now frightened by police. Article here.