For example, in one 2010 case, federal investigators broke into an apartment in Cleveland, Ohio, collected evidence, and then "trashed the place to make it look like a burglary."
According to a Department of Justice document, DEA agents used a delayed-notice warrant to steal a suspect's car in March 2004.
[3] Under the USA PATRIOT Act, signed into law during the 107th United States Congress, on October 26, 2001, for the first time in US history, sneak and peek warrants were used as standard procedure in investigations.
Democrat Russ Feingold was the only senator to not vote for the act, with one of his reasons being it would enable the Sneak and peak warrant.
[4] Sneak and peek warrants are not exclusive to acts of foreign and domestic terrorism but are applicable to any federal crime, including misdemeanors.