Members of a southeast Douglas County family said a group of bondsmen’s bounty hunters impersonating police surrounded and burst into their home early Wednesday.

The bounty hunters were looking for a man who keeps a broken-down truck on the property but doesn’t live there.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is investigating whether a crime was committed during the raid.

“Obviously, there would be concern about impersonating a police officer. That’s a crime,” said Kyle Smith, a spokesman for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, who cautioned that he didn’t know details of the incident.

It happened at roughly 12:30 a.m. at a home on North 400 Road, just inside the Douglas County line in Edgerton. According to two adult residents of the home who did not want to be identified, here’s what happened:

The family members awoke to the sound of their dog barking. They heard pounding on the door.

A man who lives in the home came downstairs and saw flashlights shining in every window. He looked out the front window and saw three men holding handguns.

They shouted “Police! Warrant! We’re coming in!” Another man who lives in the home came downstairs and opened the door.

The men outside were wearing badges on chains around their necks, but once inside, they told the family they were with a Kansas City, Mo.-based bonding company that was looking for a man who had failed to show in court on a felony case. The man visits the home only occasionally and hadn’t been there in weeks, family members said.

After searching the home, the bounty hunters left behind a phone number and asked the family to call if they saw the wanted man. Family members then called police, and a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy came and took a report.

Lt. Kathy Tate, a spokeswoman for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, declined to discuss details of the case, citing a pending investigation.

After a number of alleged abuses by Kansas bounty hunters, lawmakers earlier this year passed Senate Bill 299, a law KBI spokesman Smith described as an effort to “de-thug” the bonding business. When the law goes into effect July 1, it will prevent people with a felony conviction in the past 10 years from being bounty hunters and will require bounty hunters to notify police before they try to apprehend someone.