A Georgia house owner was arrested and charged with felony trespass after she tried to maneuver again into her personal home, which was reportedly inhabited by a squatter, based on WSB-TV.
“To see that woman walk into my mom’s house while I was in the police car, something is wrong with this picture. Something is inherently wrong with this picture,” the house owner, Loletha Hale, instructed WSB-TV.
The incident occurred on December 9, after Hale reportedly returned to her home to scrub up, after a choose dominated in her favor in a months-long battle with Sakemeyia Johnson, the alleged squatter.
The police mentioned, based on WSB-TV, that Hale “executed an illegal eviction and forcibly removed Ms. Johnson’s belongings.”
A squatter making an attempt to enter an deserted home in Central Edmonton. Friday, Could 20, 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ((Photograph by Artur Widak/NurPhoto by way of Getty Pictures))
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“I spent the night on a mat on a concrete floor in deplorable conditions. While this woman, this squatter slept in my home,” Hale instructed the outlet.
The police confirmed with the choose that Hale didn’t have a “signed writ of possession,” which might enable Hale to legally evict Johnson.
“She just caught up out of nowhere. She had this guy with him, and I locked the door. I locked the screen door, and he forced himself in telling us to get out,” Johnson instructed the police of the incident.
Hale instructed the outlet that she thought Johnson had moved out of the house after she was handed the victory in court docket in November.
South Fulton, Georgia police detain squatters allegedly in a house since Christmas 2023. (FOX 5 Atlanta)
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“I returned on Monday to start painting and she had broken the locks at my property,” Hale mentioned.
Johnson has not been charged with any crimes, based on WSB-TV.
Georgia has seen an uptick in squatter circumstances being delivered to court docket in recent times.
A report by the Pacific Authorized Basis discovered an upward development in squatter circumstances being delivered to court docket starting in 2019. The variety of these circumstances in Georgia rose from three in 2017 to 50 in 2021.
In 2023, there have been 198 civil court docket circumstances involving squatting within the Peach State, based on the report.
The Clayton County Police Division didn’t instantly return Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
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