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Squatter Living In $700K Foreclosed Home Charged With Rigging Meter In Theft Of City Water

In Sugar Grove, Illinois, WLS-TV Channel 7 reports:Suburban police arrested a man accused of illegally moving into a mansion after its owners were evicted. The alleged squatter is charged with two felonies. [...] Sugar Grove police suspect this is happening more than anyone is aware but they say the suspect in this case was brazen. [42-year old Steven Hawthorne allegedly] took over a $700,000

Full post as published by The Home Equity Theft Reporter on April 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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