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FBI and Army Raid Wrong Hotel Room and Detain Regular Guest During Training Exercise
A training exercise for FBI and U.S. Army Special Operations Command teams went wrong in Boston this week.
Around 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday night, the two teams were running through a training exercise at the Revere Hotel in Boston when they entered and raided the wrong hotel room, the FBI said in a statement to CNN.
The federal agents detained the civilian staying in that hotel room, rather than their intended team member.
"Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player," the FBI said, noting that the exercise was meant "to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment."
"First and foremost, we'd like to extend our deepest apologies to the individual who was affected by the training exercise," Army Special Operations Command Lieutenant Colonel Mike Burns told CNN.
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