Florida squatters arrested
Last week we talked about the squatters who took over the house of a deployed soldier in New Port Richey, Florida. Within days of the national attention the thieves earned for themselves, they had abandoned the home. Now, we read that they’ve both been arrested for diverting and stealing thousands of dollars worth of electricity;
Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies took Ortiz into custody Monday morning after an 8 On Your Side investigation uncovered Ortiz and his girlfriend living in the house.
His girlfriend, Fatima Cardoso, was also arrested.
They were charged with grand theft for stealing thousands of dollars in electricity. Sheriff Chris Nocco said the pair allegedly illegally diverted power for their use while living in the home.
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Ortiz and Cardoso face several years in prison, if convicted for stealing electricity.
Meanwhile, Veteran Warriors is coordinating a massive cleanup and remodel of the property. They hope to have the house ready when Sharkey family returns home in June.
So there is a small measure of justice left in the world after all.
Category: Shitbags
WTF Florida? Douchebags practically STEAL a Veteran’s home worth hundreds grand or more.. *yawn* ‘nothing we can do’… but as soon as they are found out to have messed with a couple of grand of electricity.. SWARM SWARM SWARM!!
By law there was nothing they could do because the person who held the Power of Attorney for that Soldier failed in her responsibilities to have them evicted when she found out they were living there. They claimed a verbal agreement had been made allwoing them to live there, and the Legal thing for her to have done was to evict but she did not do that… It was over a year they were there with her knowledge and not once did she or the owner file Evicition procedings as they should have.
Yes, the squatters were scumbags, but the soldier and his POA are not too bright either. Sheriffs office told them to file eviction papers, they didn’t.
And in PA, a widow lost her $280,000 family home for failure to pay $6.30 in property taxes. “Joe Askar, Beaver County’s chief solicitor, said the judge got the decision right, based on the law.” Yeah, but based upon common sense, decency, and fair play, it was all wrong. Here’s the link if you want to get pissed off this morning:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/29/judge-oks-decision-to-sell-widow-home-over-630-debt/?intcmp=trending
jaskar@beavercountypa.gov
That’s the Beaver County solicitor’s email (Joseph A. Askar) if you would like to send him a note congratulating him on taking the PA widow’s home rather than paying (or having someone pay) the $6.30. I’m guessing that his inbox will be shut down early this a.m. I’m wondering what his middle initial stands for.
I think you might have misspelled the guy’s last name, 2/17 Air Cav. Sure it’s not spelled “Azole”?
Ya know…if I had been part of that process in anyway, I would have handed the chief solicitor’s office a sawbuck and said keep the change. What a bunch of ass holes!
I’m thinking that if this isn’t reversed further up the chain, that we’re gonna find out someone in the city government had an eye on the property and wanted it for their own use (or profit).
I’d have my attorney take a real close look at whoever bought the house at the tax auction, and who ends up with the deed, and what connections they have to the city.
A somewhat similar thing happened up here where I live. A large building the City owned, valued at some $8 Millions of dollars, was sold to a single developer for just under $900,000. No notice of sale, no bid, and it wouldn’t have been known without a couple local folks noticing some tenants complaining about having to find a new place.
Turns out that the buyer/developer was a tax assessor for a neighboring community and had had his eye on the property for awhile. He simply made a quiet offer to the city manager here, who ran it past the council and got a quick vote.
Money still talks very loudly these days, so as I said, follow the money trail. I have no doubt it will lead to someone connected with the city.
Hopefully Veteran Warriors has hired a chem team to check the house for residual toxins in the walls and ceiling; if the scumbags had turned the house into a meth lab, the residual meth toxins could be seeping out the walls and harming the inhabitants for years…
Best possible outcome.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Good!
Hopefully the remodel team can get rid of the residual thug funk – a refreshing mélange of sweat, meth, and despair.
I don’t get how this was a civil matter, been a cop for 19 years, I would have told dirtbags to leave house or be arrested.
+1
Scumbag hippie POS low life dirt sucking scuttle fuctk rotting putrid mollusk!
Master Chief! You forgot to add “lower than whale shit!”
I seem to remember being called that a few times during initiation.
Fits perfectly here.
So sorry!
OVER
“Lower than whale shit at the bottom of the sea.” 😀
You left out hagfish spawn.
MEOW.
Slimier than hagfish!!
Looks like they get to do more “squatting,” this time they’ll do it in a jail cell if they get convicted. 😀
The veteran and his power of attorney may have failed to do their part in order to make this a trial based on failure to evict, but the city pulled through to get justice.
thebesig…and I can’t say I’m not thrilled to see they’ll be inside for a long while.
I am a little sad that the headline did not say, “Florida Squatters riddled with high caliber ammunition”.
JDAM strike preferable, but high caliber ammunition acceptable.
If not with a rifle, the use of pistol, shotgun, long bow, compound bow, crossbow, spear, knife, machete, axe, pike, punji stick, claymore mine, WP grenade,frag grenade, Black Powder rifle, pistol, or shotgun, screwdriver, rusty icepick, club, baseball bat, ball peen or sledge hammer would be quite acceptable instead!!
Maybe the “Big Dawg” Riley Keeton (Queef) could help them out as he does a lot of charitable work.
Who knows, maybe Phildo could throw them a couple of taxpayer dollars?
With that much electricity, they were probably growing pot. I saw a home-rehab show where growers ruined a rental house. It was a combination of mold from the humidity and hippy stank. They actually bypassed the electric meter on the main feed to the house. That could be what our losers are being charged with here.