Officers review property dispute involving squatting claims, North Terre Haute IN
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Suspicious ActivityPolice are reviewing a property dispute at Park Avenue and Taft involving possible squatting. The landowner recently bought the properties but some people have been occupying them since June. Officers plan to consult with the prosecutor before taking enforcement action due to unclear ownership and contractual issues.
Audio|Heard on: Terre Haute Public Safety and Vigo County Fire
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05:16
Transcript:
00:00
I'm just going to be gathering some photographs and whatnot and then review it with the prosecutor before we enforce it.
00:10
Okay, clear.
00:12
Let me never change your mind.
00:14
Yeah, go to talk.
00:18
About a little, (number withheld), (number withheld), novert.
00:22
(number withheld).
00:24
9-2.
00:25
9, sure.
00:31
Lieutenant,
00:32
I just received an affidavit from a homeowner or the landowner that she just bought it, so I think I just want to take some pictures and make sure I understand what's up here and then I'd like to kick up by a prosecutor before we enforce it just to kind of make sure we're buttoned up on it.
00:58
10-4[1]. I'm just looking out for you.
01:01
I'm sure you're safe.
01:02
Dispatch 7-Eleven.
01:05
7-Eleven.
01:06
I'm 10.8.
01:09
7-Eleven.
01:11
Yeah, I appreciate it.
01:12
I'll let you know what we're going to do.
01:18
Have you had any issues or those addresses? One was on Taft and the other one was on Michigan.
01:26
You have any recollection of any issues at those locations?
01:31
TAS a couple years ago,
01:33
I believe that party's moved on.
01:36
But no, not as of late.
01:39
Just betcha.
01:40
20[2]12.
01:43
712.
01:45
(number withheld). I was just on Michigan a couple of days ago, I think on my Friday,
01:53
email just purchased the property.
01:55
However, those people have been on the property since June for a fact because we have call history there with them.
02:06
Okay,
02:07
did you talk to that? The people that are supposedly squatting,
02:14
did they tell you anything about,
02:19
if they had,
02:21
other than being there since June,
02:24
did you get a sense that they have some contractual interest?
02:28
No, I didn't make contact with them at all.
02:31
I just spoke with the RP and made her aware that they've been there since June.
02:36
We had a couple of different calls on them.
02:41
Okay, good.
02:42
That's why I want to bounce this off the prosecutor before we did anything with it.
02:47
She just brought these affidavits in and,
02:51
as we talked about in the training with the prosecutor, it's got a lot of gray in it.
03:01
Yeah, I know.
03:03
I know for that Michigan property since we had call history and she just got ownership of the land.
03:09
I had instructed her to do an eviction,
03:13
because I'm not sure if they had contractual agreement with the previous owners or not.
03:19
(number withheld).
03:21
31.
03:33
Medic 9 (number withheld) Road North in U.S.
03:39
Penitentiary, Chef Payne.
03:41
Medic 9 (number withheld) Road North in U.S.
03:47
penitentiary, Jeff Payne.
03:51
31, he's on talk with 13.
03:55
Yeah, that's kind of my concern, too.
03:58
She didn't buy this property one of these until October the 3rd of this year, so it's not been very long.
04:06
Good for.
04:09
4-1-301.
04:12
Park Avenue and Taft.
04:14
I spoke with the previous owners, if that's what you're referencing there on Taft, reference that Michigan property several times, and every time they had said that they had no ownership over there or no contractual interest in that property, that they had never told them they could be there, and they hadn't known for the first three or four months they were over there that they were even over there.
04:36
Okay, great.
04:38
Thank you.
04:39
I, too, had dropped off a eviction paperwork for the female there.
04:46
I don't know if she ever turned in.
04:48
I would presume not.
04:52
Yeah,
04:53
she's using this squatter statue to try to get these people removed.
05:04
I'm not sure that's the right path here.
05:07
If she bought it on sheriff's sale,
05:10
they should have just filed for a writ of assistance and removed them as part of the sheriff's sale.
05:14
But we'll see what I can do.
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20: Location (shorthand for 10-20)
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Location mentioned:
E Park Ave & N Taft St, North Terre Haute, IN 47805
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