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Squatters take over multimillion-dollar Sammamish home, police say hands are tied
KIRO 7 ^ | May 24, 2021 | Kevin Ko

Posted on 05/26/2021 7:45:28 AM PDT by fireman15

A multimillion-dollar home in Sammamish is at the center of an ongoing investigation, as squatters continue to break in and make the home their own.

“The amount of guns, drugs, etcetera that were confiscated out of that place are not for personal use or for any good reason,” Sammamish Police Chief Dan Pingrey said. “I totally recognize how frustrating it is for the neighborhood and it’s just as frustrating for us to be honest with you.”

The homeowner lives overseas, but a few people living locally help maintain the home with routine checkups. One of those workers stopped by the home and found 12 guns, bulletproof vests, more than 15,000 fentanyl pills, heroin, meth, and more than $40,000 in cash.

The worker called 911 and police arrived on scene.

“As we were beginning to take a look at our next steps, an unlicensed motorcycle showed up with two people on it,” Pingrey said.

Neighbors identified the two people as the squatters and both were arrested for burglary, according to Pingrey. Both were out of jail within days and headed back to the home, bringing more people with them.

“After they were out of jail, we had a large group trying to get back into the house,” Pingrey said. “No one was supposed to be there. The homeowners were not allowing anyone to stay there.”

Pictures taken by a neighbor show police vehicles lined up on the street with officers watching, as the squatters filled a U-Haul truck with items inside. Another picture shows a garage full of appliances, including an ATM.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: bluestates; crime; cultureofcorruption; democrats; dopersrights; organizedcrime; propertyrights; wa; washington
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To: Eleutheria5
Sammamish is about 20 miles east of Seattle, fairly new city, mainly for the wealthy.

As an electrician back in the late '80's-early-'90's I wired many houses/mansions there, huge estates, made some great money!

21 posted on 05/26/2021 8:01:31 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: fireman15
We had a similar incident at my grandmother's house 20 years ago. My grandmother was having difficulty with Alzheimer's but refused to go to an appropriate care facility. We were working to get her into an appropriate care facility and being stalled at by the state month after month. During this time two guys who had just been released from prison came to her door and told her that they were my long dead grandfather's friends. She let them into the house and they not only robbed her blind, they wouldn't leave. The one who was 30 years younger was trying to become legally married to her so that he could get the house and whatever other assets that she had. My grandfather had a huge and impressive collection of vintage firearms, reloading equipment, and supplies, not to mention stashes of gold coins and other valuables. All taken of course...

The police were contacted and they came and arrested my dad for trying to keep the criminals out of the house. It was insane and this was long ago. It has only gotten worse.

Drug dealers and thieves moved into the house across the street from a home we own in a nice neighborhood. It took years to get rid of them. The utilities were cut off early on but they kept illegally wiring around the meter. Since they didn't have water they used the back yard for their toilet. I could go on and on about the details on both of these situation. It is more unbelievable than anyone here can probably imagine. And it is not getting better.

22 posted on 05/26/2021 8:02:12 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: JBW1949

Al Capone should’ve used his wealth to elect more Distric Attorneys and the Attorney General.


23 posted on 05/26/2021 8:02:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: fireman15

What do we know about the perps?


24 posted on 05/26/2021 8:03:01 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: George from New England

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25 posted on 05/26/2021 8:03:28 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yeah, it’s time.


26 posted on 05/26/2021 8:04:56 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: fireman15

a garage full of appliances, including an ATM.

The police were ok with the crooks having a ATM?


27 posted on 05/26/2021 8:06:24 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: a fool in paradise
Al Capone should’ve used his wealth to elect more Distric Attorneys and the Attorney General.

I thought he did.

It was the Feds that got him on "Tax evasion" charges...

28 posted on 05/26/2021 8:07:22 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: fireman15

Private property is an illusion. You get to pay the taxes, the insurance, the maintenance, but you don’t have full use and control of the property.

Communist manifesto: eliminate all private property.


29 posted on 05/26/2021 8:07:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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To: marktwain

He needed to buy higher offices as Soros and Hollywood does.


30 posted on 05/26/2021 8:09:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: minnesota_bound
The Feds are okay with George Floyd and his crew passing around counterfeit US currency.
31 posted on 05/26/2021 8:10:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

That would’ve been smart...


32 posted on 05/26/2021 8:10:21 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Way past the three S’s time. These people are feral.


33 posted on 05/26/2021 8:10:25 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: 17th Miss Regt

No. That time passed with the initial 911 call. The contractor that had legitimate business there COULD have informed the neighborhood safety committee instead of calling 911... the 3 S’s would have been an option still.


34 posted on 05/26/2021 8:12:38 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: cuban leaf
If it happened to me, the solution is simple. I walk in with m semi-auto shotgun and ask them to leave. If they refuse, they get shot dead. All of them. I’m quite serious here.

Hopefully, it wont be the same guys: "One of those workers stopped by the home and found 12 guns, bulletproof vests ..." :-)

35 posted on 05/26/2021 8:14:48 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: Ann Archy

The squatters claim to be owners or renters and who are the cops to say otherwise?
In more civilized times this would be dealt with at the neighborhood level with the squatters disappearing or fleeing in terror with only the clothes on their back.


36 posted on 05/26/2021 8:15:09 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: a fool in paradise

My daughter rented a house from a rental agency. When she went to check out the house before moving in there was no hot water heater. She called the rental company and they sent someone out to install a new one. Simple as that. No questions about breakins, police, etc. Just install a new one and move on.


37 posted on 05/26/2021 8:15:59 AM PDT by sheana
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To: KevinB

Yeah. That’s another thing. If there is a lot of valuable stuff and there is nobody there, it all goes into a storage unit.

And if I end up in a firefight, then I might call the police. :)


38 posted on 05/26/2021 8:17:38 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: fireman15

Easy to deal with, just wait for night fall and disappear them..


39 posted on 05/26/2021 8:17:57 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: cuban leaf
I've also not seen a cop near my house in a decade except for when my neighbor's cows broke through the fence into my yard.

I grew up on acreage and we had a bunch of cows; they all had big horns. The property behind us was developed and kept growing and growing. The fences were not in that great of condition to begin with but the kids and others kept messing them up even worse. Our cows began getting adventurous after they discovered that the fruit trees, flowers, gardens and lawns in the yards of the new arrivals were tastier than what we fed them and what was in our fields. Since they had horns the new arrivals thought they were all dangerous bulls and were terrified of them. The bulls we had were too lazy to go on adventures with the cows unless one of them was in heat.

From the time I was a little kid I had to go round the cows up and try to fix the fence where they had gotten through. The police or the humane society would occasionally show up but they had absolutely no idea how to chase cows back to where they belonged. So they would let the little kid with a big stick and a bucket of grain chase them back home. One time I was chasing the cows out of someone's yard and apologizing. And they said, "Don't worry about it. The realtor told us there would be visiting cows; we think that they are great." That was the only time that happened, I learned a lot of bad words from the neighbors as a child.

40 posted on 05/26/2021 8:22:14 AM PDT by fireman15
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