Squatters in East English Village had turned the home on Yorkshire into a chop shop, complete with illegal hook-up supplying stolen electricity.
Not to mention a baby alligator and ferocious piranha fish.
The neighborhood is one of Detroit's best, and residents complained to Detroit police at a community meeting, Mara McDonald reports at WDIV.
Within 24 hours, a massive show of force busted the squatters as neighbors cheered.