Woman (the property owner) arrested after refusing to leave Penn Yan (Upstate NY) apartment

fingerlakes1.com ^ | 11/7/25 | Staff

[AbolishCSEU]

They didn't arrest the family member/squatter, they arrested the senior property owner! Shows how warped landlord/tenant law has become in BLUE states.

[ncalburt]

i do not look at any blue state applications because of this mentality.

[Celtic Conservative]

"Officers responded to a call involving a dispute between a tenant and Briggs, who is a family member of the landlord. 

Do random family members now have legal standing, or is it just the landlord/owner like in my state?

CC

[af_vet_1981]

They didn't arrest the family member/squatter, they arrested the senior property owner! Shows how warped landlord/tenant law has become in BLUE states.

Incorrect assumptions

Did you understand the article ?
1. The woman arrested is not the senior property owner. and had no legal right to be in the apartment.
2. The tenant has a legal right to be in the apartment unless and until legally evicted.
3. Tenants have legal standing.

Police informed Briggs that legal eviction procedures must be followed and that she could not force the tenant out. Despite being told multiple times by the tenant, the landlord, and officers to leave, Briggs refused.

[Palio di Siena]

Quiet enjoyment

[AbolishCSEU]

Read it over again. Briggs, 63 IS the property owner who tried to force out her no doubt deadbeat relative and was arrested for not going through the legal channels.

Let’s just send a squatter to your property and then you can go through the 4 month legal process of removing them via eviction. Still insane.

[AbolishCSEU]

Good choice! I also look with a side eye at those who have left NYS for red states then come slithering back to NY because there aren’t as many “resources” (welfare) in the red states they intended to sponge off of.

[SirFishalot]

"Despite being told multiple times by the tenant, the landlord, and officers to leave, Briggs refused."

Seems pretty clear to me. ;0)

[ncalburt]

Single Older woman with cats is a huge red flag .
We dont cats anymore .

[VAFreedom]

well Curtis Sliwa have a large collection of cats good thing he lost

[JewishRighter]

Excellent post. Can confirm - 36 year lawyer with plenty of Landlord Tenant experience.

[9YearLurker]

Where are landlords allowed to forcibly remove tenants without an eviction order?

[af_vet_1981]

Read it over again. Briggs, 63 IS the property owner who tried to force out her no doubt deadbeat relative and was arrested for not going through the legal channels.

Read it again. Carol Briggs is related to the landlord, not the landlord (lord of the land). She has no legal right to be there and everyone told her to leave, including the landlord.

From the article:
1. ”Carol Briggs, 63, was arrested by Penn Yan Police for obstructing governmental administration, resisting arrest, and trespass following an incident at an apartment where she had no legal right to be.”
2. Officers responded to a call involving a dispute between a tenant and Briggs, who is a family member of the landlord.”
3. ”Despite being told multiple times by the tenant, the landlord, and officers to leave, Briggs refused.”

[Celtic Conservative]

Reading comprehension is apparently a lost art.

CC

[faucetman]

“Officers responded to a call involving a dispute between a tenant and Briggs, who is a family member of the landlord.”

Urinalists strike again.

Who is “who”? Is the tenant a family member of the landlord or is Briggs a family member of the landlord? Is Briggs the landlord?

Anywho, the tenant has the right to stay until “evicted” by a court. ANY “landlord” would/should know this.

[BradyLS]

I think I finally got it. But that article should have been written to be clearer.

[lastchance]

The family member tenant was not a squatter. The police followed the law.

[lastchance]

Yes, the family member was legally a tenant. She had permission to live there (whether it involved paying rent does not matter) for longer than just what would be considered a visit. Under the law this means she is a tenant and the owner is now a landlord subject to landlord-tenant statutes.

[Ex-Con777]

What would happen if the owner leased the place to someone else and that someone else refused to leave. The squatter then would have no legal right to the property and the someone else would.

“ But officer, I have here a signed , current lease. The squatter doesn’t. Remove her from my apartment.”

EC

[lastchance]

My sister learned this the hard way. She had someone rent a room in her house when he did not pay she put his stuff out. Then she argued (aka showed her ass) with the deputy who came in response to the guy’s complaint. Which lead to this conversation,

Me, “Do you really have to take her to Rock Road (local jail)? Can’t I just make sure she does the legal eviction?
Deputy, “Oh no Ma’am she’s going.” He’d had quite enough of her lip.

These laws are the exist reason I have forbidden her from moving anybody but my nephew into a house I own and she lives in.