FRANKLIN PARK, Illinois - December 16, 2009 - A SWAT team knocked down the doors and broke several windows of this Franklin Park home serving an arrest warrant in November, but it turned out they didn't have the proper warrant to enter the home without knocking.

Police said they had a job to do, but the couple said the SWAT team ruined their home and injured them for no reason, and they are telling their story to 2 Investigator Dave Savini.

Larry Smolek, 67, showed the 2 Investigators ten broken windows. Smolek said he and his wife Georgiana got the shock of their lives last month when masked men with weapons stormed their home.

"It was like somebody was shooting a machine gun at us through the windows," said Georgiana Smolek.

The retired couple said that on November 23, dozens of police officers blasted into their Franklin Park house, injuring them.

Georgiana Smolek said, "suddenly I just saw all this glass just fly and a SWAT team came in with their guns and put the gun to my head."

Larry Smolek is a stroke victim and Georgiana Smolek has breast cancer and suffers from lymph edema in her right arm. She said she and her husband are the victims of excessive force by police.

"I got a cut on my leg and a bruise on my arm and a bruise on my hip," she said.

She said she was also thrown to the ground, her bad arm twisted when handcuffed and her leg sliced by glass.

"I told them, I just kept on telling them I have lymph edema. I said please watch my arm."

Watching her in pain was difficult, Larry Smolek said. He also was cuffed and suffered facial lacerations.

"She's my life. It made me mad," he said.

The Franklin Park police called in the Rosemont SWAT team to assist them on an arrest warrant they had for the Smolek's 25-year-old son, Christopher Smolek, who was suspected of several drug related offenses, including illegal drug possession.

The Smoleks said they believe police could have handled the warrant differently and claimed that all the doors were open and all police had to do was knock.

Police officials confirmed they did not have the kind of warrant that allowed them to forcibly enter the home without knocking but would not comment any further on the case.

Instead of knocking, the Smoleks said police threw four flash bang explosive devices through the windows. They left a detonated one behind.

Police also fired some sort of weapon through the hinges and knob of their basement door.

The Smoleks, who've owned their home for 30 years, said they understand police have a job to do but feel they went too far by ransacking their home.

The Smoleks claim police even threw their home videos in the toilet.

"It's terrorized me and I'm so hurt and I don't understand why they had to do this", said Georgiana Smolek.

The Smoleks couldn't comment on their son's case other than to say they love their son but that they have never committed any crimes in their lives.

They also said Christopher Smolek was in the basement watching television when police barreled in and they would have let police in if they would have knocked.

Franklin Park Police and Rosemont Police would not talk on camera.

A Franklin Park police official confirmed the warrant was not the kind, referred to as a "No Knock Warrant," which would have allowed the use of unannounced force to gain entry.

The Smoleks said they have thousands of dollars of damage to windows and doors.

Police said they recovered a shotgun from the house, but would not elaborate.

The Smoleks say it was their other son's gun and that it was a skeet gun. They said it was legally registered and locked in a box when police found it.

Chistopher Smolek has been charged with nine criminal counts related to the warrant and police said the investigation continues.