Crime

A Detroit Housejacking: Owner Struggles To Evict Jaguar-Driving Squatter

August 26, 2014, 6:34 AM

Theresa Calhoun, above, invested her savings in a quaint Tudor-style home on Muirland Street in northwest Detroit. She wanted a safe neighborhood for her daughter and grandkids to live.

But when they recently moved out, the locks were changed and a stranger moved in, Ronnie Dahl reports on WXYZ.

"A man showed up and said my daughter is renting the house and I said really, well it's not her house. I didn't rent it, so it's not possible," Calhoun said. "She came to the door bunch of paperwork, a lease which has to be phony."

Dahl confronted the squatter, who was wearing a dress while she worked on a Jaguar in the backyard. She went inside and never returned, but had the chutzpah to call Detroit Police on Dahl.

The squatter claims she was the victim of a scam. She rented the home from some people she met on Craiglist and gave them $2,500.


Read more:  WXYZ


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