Posted on 01/31/2012 8:54:52 PM PST by smokingfrog
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Sam Burbank, who'd recently returned from his third tour in Iraq, was shocked Tuesday to learn that while his family was living at Fort Hood, two squatters had moved into his Liberty County home and were selling his possessions at a garage sale.
"It devastated us," said his wife, Hollie Burbank. "We got married in that house. It's been in my family for three generations."
Liberty County sheriff's spokesman Capt. Rex Evans, a veteran himself, was upset that anyone would exploit a soldier and his family who were already making personal sacrifices to protect this country's freedoms.
Burbank had the dangerous job of searching areas for improvised explosive devices while on tour.
The squatters were identified as two parolees from Cleveland: Faylisa Danielle Bailey, 30, who has had multiple convictions for theft, forgery and credit card abuse, and Johnny Wayne Bell, 47, who has numerous drug convictions.
Evans said both are in jail after their paroles on some drug charges were revoked. They now face new charges of possession of controlled substances and more are expected.
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I would not mind seeing them 6 ft under.
Some folks just need killing...
Man, what scum-bags!! Time to throw away the keys when they lock up these low lifes.
Did the soldier’s wife live at Ft. Hood and leave their house and all their belongings unguarded while the soldier was overseas? Why would she do that? She says three generations of her family have owned this house. Are there no relatives anywhere in the area? Something ain’t right.
Even so, the soldier should have shot the two thugs.
I doubt seriously that this guy’s house had a sign on the front that said “This house belongs to an active-duty soldier”. Not defending those dirtbags in any way, but to them, this was just another house. Yes, once they got inside, they would have found military-related things, like photos and maybe the odd uniform, but that doesn’t automatically signal active duty.
Not too bright thing to try with Texas’ Castle Doctrine in a military town.
Shoot the squatters and throw their bodies in the woods.
The squatter had a facebook profile. I wonder if the photos are from inside this house?
https://www.facebook.com/faylisa.bailey1
She assumed, like most Americans, that her property would be safe.
Doesn’t look like the same person to me.
If he had walked in and shot the two trespassers would he have walked since this is in Texas?
I was renting a 2.5 acre place from a Sgt in Sierra Vista Az while he was doing a 2 year stint in Hawaii.
I was working 12-16 hour days 7 days a week.
I would leave when it was dark and come home when it was dark.
Well, I got a couple of days off for Thanksgiving, looked out the back window one morning and the a**hole that lived behind me had built a horses coral on this soldiers property. He was trying to squat.
Long story short, I planted some oleander beside the coral on the advice of a Large animal VET and he got that thing tore down post haste. LOL!
The crap people will try to pull never astounds me.
And we’re supposed to feel sorry for these looters according to some people.
Yessir.
And they train us to say (1) I was in fear for my life, and (2) I'd like to speak to my attorney.
Amazingly I had no legal recourse as a renter and all I could do was notify the landowner who was thousands of miles away as to the situation.
Luckily My friend who was a cop had this cool Father in law who was a large animal Vet and he came up with this great plan!
There are lots of benefits to living on base, especially for a woman whose husband is at war.
Dirtbags! May the needle break off in their arm next time these druggie-losers shoot up.
More than likely.
Ha. I assume the horses would have gotten pretty sick by eating the oleanders?
Still wouldn’t want to seriously harm the horse because of some jack-wad.
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