Posted on 12/23/2024 11:38:39 AM PST by Morgana
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Clayton County homeowner ended up in jail, charged with criminal trespass after trying to move back into her home occupied by an alleged squatter.
“I spent the night on a mat on a concrete floor in deplorable conditions. While this woman, this squatter slept in my home,” Loletha Hale told Channel 2 consumer investigator Justin Gray.
Clayton County police officers and Sheriff’s deputies were called to the home on Livingston Drive on Dec. 9.
A deputy can be heard on body camera footage telling Hale to look at things from the alleged squatter’s point of view.
“Just think of it from this perspective, though. Everybody isn’t as fortunate as you to have a bed. All the little things, a bed in their house, food in the kitchen,” the deputy said.
But Hale said this all started in August when she found an alleged squatter in the home and called police.
Police cited the alleged squatter, Sakemeyia Johnson, using the new Georgia Squatter Reform Act.
But Clayton County Magistrate Court Judge Latrevia Lates-Johnson ruled that “Sakemeyia Johnson is not a squatter” because she is related to a previously evicted tenant’s partner.
“How can she not be squatting when I’ve never had any type of contract relationship with this person?” Hale said.
In sheriff’s department bodycam video from the scene on Dec. 9, Johnson told responding officers, “I was written a citation saying I was a squatter. But a judge signed an order saying that I wasn’t a squatter.”
That started a multi-month court battle with multiple filings, hearings and appeals. Johnson even filed for bankruptcy, listing Hale as her only creditor.
But on Nov. 18, a magistrate judge issued a final judgment in Hale’s favor.
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40 years ago as a young man, I worked with some bikers to remove some squatters from a house. Some went threw the front windows. All their stuff was destroyed and the owner never got the police involved.
That is the key. Do NOT call the police. They are not your friends and the law will side with them.
*snif* *snif* whats that I smell? Oh HUGE LAWSUIT!
The deputy need to transfer to the social services department. He obviously doesn’t understand what his job is.
2/3 correct.
But I do give plenty to FR.
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