Squatters found in $900,000 foreclosed home, arrested (AZ) [View all]
By The Daily Courier
April 13, 2016 11:47 a.m.
PRESCOTT – A man and woman who were living in a $900,000 home that had been foreclosed by the bank claimed they had a legal right to occupy it, but were arrested on Tuesday, April 12, for burglary, theft and criminal theft ...
“The investigation revealed that the Skates’ ascribe to a set of beliefs often described as the ‘Sovereign Citizen Movement.’ In this case, the Skates’ learned that the home was bank owned and unoccupied. They entered the home, claiming it as their own under their beliefs that banks are not people and therefore have no actual right to real property,” Bonney said.
The couple filed a deed for the property, which, Bonney said, gave them no actual legal claim to the house, and put up signs in the windows “indicating their right to be at the home and their willingness to defend the property” ...
Randall and Jennifer Skates were booked into the Camp Verde jail.
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