I don’t know the facts of this case but based upon the amount of time these defaulting trustor(s) had to completely trash the place AFTER the bank took it back, I suspect this is another sign of “lender malaise.” Had their lender timely foreclosed and timely began eviction proceedings immediately after the filing of their trustee’s deed, these former owners/squatters may have realized that the eviction on their record would have prevented them from renting anywhere as they presumably have at least one local job to go to every day and left timely and peacefully.
Lenders are sleeping in their own beds which were NOT carefully made because they allowed (and continue to allow) their scumbag defaulting trustors to walk all over them in all phases of the foreclosure process, perpetuating their already-inflated “entitlement mentality.”
Now these “subjects” (or at least the spouse) is facing sentencing for criminal charges for theft and vandalism and the husband likely disciplinary action (after his agencies lawyers comb thru their trial transcripts to determine the depth of their employee’s culpability). And they WILL because they can get them for FREE! It goes to the cop’s “integrity” that he was sworn to uphold.
It seems like the foreclosing bene could also sue them for damages after the conclusion of the criminal matter and get an easy judgment against them. After she is a convicted felon and can’t make a decent living anymore, the “husband/cop” would end up holding the bag for both of them and get his wages assigned after the judgment. This would be his just comeuppance coming home after his shifts and witnessing his spouse going thru these tirades and doing nothing to stop her, that is … if they were still living together.
She couldn’t have done all this damage in ONE DAY.
Another moral of this story … pick your “partner” you will be legally joined-at-the-hip with in every way very, VERY carefully. In many ways, you BOTH are viewed as ONE and the SAME :=0
