DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa county faces a lawsuit after five of its sheriff’s officers were accused of confiscating and destroying property while executing a search warrant at a wrong address. The Des Moines Register reports that Michael Owings found Van Buren County the officers at his home in June when he arrived with his mother and girlfriend. A lawsuit alleges that Owings told officers they were in the wrong place, and one of them replied, “We own this property.”

A judge granted the officers’ request for a search warrant at a Douds, Iowa home, in connection to a drug investigation, but the lawsuit contends that the correct address was about one-third of a mile from Owings’ mobile home.