Quote:16 months ago, nearly two dozen fed agents kicked in the doors at two homes to serve search warrants related to an Area 51 website owned by Joerg Arnu. He and his gal Linda were held at gunpoint. Tonight at 6 and 11 on KLAS, I will update the story.

Quote:On the morning of November 3 last year, he was in bed when around 20 armed counter-terrorism agents in tactical gear raided his Rachel home, handcuffed him and led him out of his home in the freezing cold for questioning, he told The Independent.

Agents simultaneously kicked down the door of his home in Las Vegas, where his girlfriend Linda Hellow awoke to find a dozen FBI officers in the living room. She says she was ordered at gunpoint to come down the stairs from her bedroom dressed only in a t-shirt and underwear.

“We are senior citizens, were not armed, fully cooperated with the agents and yet we were treated in the most disrespectful and humiliating way possible,” he told The Independent.

The agents seized four of Mr Arnu’s computers, containing his life’s work on Area 51, along with treasured photos of his deceased parents, and medical and tax records. Hard drives, phones, cameras and a drone were also taken.

Quote: “They can tell something to a judge that you can’t know what it is—they can kick in your door, roust you out of bed, take your stuff,” he said. “They don’t have to charge you with anything, and they don’t even have to tell you what the crime was.”

Arnu’s attorney said the federal government has up to five years to decide if they will press charges. Until then, Dreamland Resorts and its owner remain in legal limbo.