Squatters take over multimillion-dollar Sammamish home, police say hands are tied

KIRO 7 ^ | May 24, 2021 | Kevin Ko

[PROCON]

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!

[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.

[a fool in paradise]

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

[Maine Mariner]

What do we know about the perps?

[TexasGator]

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[17th Miss Regt]

Yeah, it’s time.

[minnesota_bound]

a garage full of appliances, including an ATM.

The police were ok with the crooks having a ATM?

[marktwain]

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...

[I want the USA back]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

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

[a fool in paradise]

The Feds are okay with George Floyd and his crew passing around counterfeit US currency.

[JBW1949]

That would’ve been smart...

[exnavy]

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

[L,TOWM]

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.

[KevinB]

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 ..." :-)

[Little Ray]

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.

[sheana]

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.

[cuban leaf]

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. :)

[dpetty121263]

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

[fireman15]

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.