martedì 18 ottobre 2011

Squatter arrested for firebombing foreclosed Detroit home


Detroit – A 44-year-old woman accused of firebombing the new owners of a foreclosed home in which she had been squatting has been arrested.

Tina Dalton of Detroit has been charged with a dozen felonies, including seven counts of assault with intent to murder. Investigators accuse Dalton of throwing a Molotov cocktail June 25 through the back bedroom window of a home on Lahser.

It hit owner Don Boggs in the face, burning more than 40 percent of his body.

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The News profiled Boggs and his family of 10 in a July story about BenjiGates Estates, a firm that has quickly become one of the most prolific house flippers in Detroit, buying a record 460 homes at the county tax foreclosure auction.

Boggs, a handyman, bought the four-bedroom ranch from BenjiGates this spring on land contract with a $1,500 down payment.

At the time of the fire, the Boggs family believed the incident was connected to a feud they had with the previous tenant since buying the home and securing the front door with a set of handcuffs.

Detroit Fire Department Lt. Joseph Crandall said Dalton had been squatting in the home, which caused the feud.

„A conflict arose and it snowballed from there,“ Crandall said.

Dalton didn‘t have an attorney as of Tuesday afternoon.

Crandall said Boggs‘ condition has improved, but he is still in the hospital and had a „long road ahead“ to recovery.

After the fire, BenjiGates gave the Boggs family another home and renovated it for them.

BenjiGates’s owners said Detroit real estate can be dangerous, adding that they‘ve been confronted by angry inhabitants who sometimes refuse to leave.

In June, someone used a truck and chain to pull down the front of a house in the 9300 block of Sussex. Records show Angel Group LLC bought the home for $3,000 after the owner, who a neighbor said had lived there more than 10 years, lost it last year over unpaid taxes.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110920/METRO/109200425/Squatter-arrested-for-firebombing-foreclosed-Detroit-home#ixzz1b4S2OiMI

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