Roberts, who heard a dog barking inside the house, said police knocked and announced themselves. Roberts said he personally "knocked and announced," four times in intervals of three to four seconds, yelling each time: "Chesapeake police! Search warrant! Open the door!" He said other officers announced themselves as well.
"You have these officers beating on the door, announcing their presence for a period of time," said Paul Ebert, a special prosecutor brought in from Northern Virginia to handle the case. "Not once, but for a period of five times."
At some point, police began to yell "eight ball," a code meaning the raid had been compromised and that the individual inside the house knew of the raid, Roberts said.http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/murd...oes-grand-jury