California Rep. Eric Swalwell served Republican Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks earlier this month with a lawsuit days after attorneys with Swalwell said they could not find Brooks to serve him.
After being served Brooks alleged the process server trespassed, snuck into his home, and accosted his wife. Philip Andonian, attorney for Congressman Swalwell, maintains that the service was “lawful and valid.”
Brooks claimed that a private investigator paid by Swalwell entered his home without his permission and confronted his wife to serve Brooks with a lawsuit related to January 6.
.@EricSwalwell team committed Criminal Trespass INSIDE Mo Brooks’ home. #CNN
Swalwell attorney Phillip Andonian denies agent’s crime. Agent’s video is PROOF! Release it!
Experts to download home security video tomorrow.
Arrest warrant to be sought.https://t.co/jkdPhQKK3M
— Mo Brooks (@RepMoBrooks) June 7, 2021
Brooks said he and his wife have sworn out an arrest warrant for Christian Seklecki, the man who served a lawsuit to their home on June 6.
According to a statement from Brooks, the warrant seeks to charge Seklecki with criminal trespass in the first degree. Alabama Code sets the penalty for criminal mischief in the first degree at up to a year in jail and a fine of $6,000.
“Mo and I take our security very seriously, as do all families,” said Martha Brooks. “My hope is that my actions today will cause the process server to think twice before illegally invading the sanctity of someone else’s home, and put those who would threaten our security on notice that we will pursue illegal actions to the fullest extent of the law.”
Madison County District Attorney Rob Broussard confirmed the warrant was sworn out by Ms. Brooks on Tuesday, June 15.
This is an excerpt from CBS 42.
