“I had somebody living in the house that wasn’t authorized to be there,” Crawford said.
The security system was disconnected.
Police said the man who was living in the home claimed to have signed a lease and paid someone thousands of dollars to be there.
He moved out, causing a two-week delay for Crawford.
“It’s very frustrating because you have thousands of dollars wrapped up,” Crawford said.
Just last month police arrested a man after they said he broke into a dead man’s home.
Last December police arrested and charged a group of squatters.
Cobb County police said their precinct 2 officers responded to nearly 10 squatter cases between February and March of this year.
“In some cases, they’ll actually go into a vacant home, sometimes change the locks, and then try to lease that to an unsuspecting third party who thinks they are legitimately leasing that property,” Sgt. Eric Smith with the Cobb County Police Department said.
Gov. Brian Kemp recently signed a new squatting law following a series of Channel 2 investigations.
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