The woman who actually lives in the house had just moved to Oklahoma City from Maryland with her family about two weeks earlier.
âI keep asking them, âwho are you? What are you doing here? Whatâs happening,ââ she said. âAnd they said, âwe have a warrant for the house, a search warrant.ââ
She said they ordered her and her daughters outside into the rain before they could even put on clothes.
âThey wanted me to change in front of all of them, in between all of them,â she said. âMy husband has not even seen my daughter in her undergarmentsâher own dad, because itâs respectful. You have her out there, a minor, in her underwear.â
Marisa said the names on the search warrant were not hers or anyone in her family.
âWe just moved here from Maryland,â she said. âWeâre citizens. Thatâs what I kept saying. Weâre citizens.â
She said the agents didnât care.
âThey were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,â she said. âI kept pleading. I kept telling them we werenât criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didnât do anything.â
Marisa said the agents tore apart every square inch of the house and what few belongings they had, seizing their phones, laptops and their life savings in cash as âevidence.â
âI told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,â she said. âI have to feed my children. Iâm going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.â
Before they left, Marisa said one of the agents made a comment.
âOne of them said, âI know it was a little rough this morning,ââ she said. âIt was so denigrating. That you do all of this to a family, to women, your fellow citizens. And it was a little rough? You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life. Weâre going to have to go get help or get over this somehow.â
Now, Marisa said they have, quite literally, nothing.
âI said, âwhen are we going to get our stuff back?â They said it could be days or it could be months,â she said.
Marisa said she is left with nothing but questions.