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Squatters try to make soldier's home theirs
chron.com ^ | 31 Jan 2012 | Cindy Horswell

Posted on 01/31/2012 8:54:52 PM PST by smokingfrog

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Sam Burbank, who'd recently returned from his third tour in Iraq, was shocked Tuesday to learn that while his family was living at Fort Hood, two squatters had moved into his Liberty County home and were selling his possessions at a garage sale.

"It devastated us," said his wife, Hollie Burbank. "We got married in that house. It's been in my family for three generations."

Liberty County sheriff's spokesman Capt. Rex Evans, a veteran himself, was upset that anyone would exploit a soldier and his family who were already making personal sacrifices to protect this country's freedoms.

Burbank had the dangerous job of searching areas for improvised explosive devices while on tour.

The squatters were identified as two parolees from Cleveland: Faylisa Danielle Bailey, 30, who has had multiple convictions for theft, forgery and credit card abuse, and Johnny Wayne Bell, 47, who has numerous drug convictions.

Evans said both are in jail after their paroles on some drug charges were revoked. They now face new charges of possession of controlled substances and more are expected.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
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To: mylife

My great grandfather lost a herd? (more than one) of cows to oleander in CA in the late 1800s.


41 posted on 02/01/2012 4:04:34 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: smokingfrog

FTA:

Burbank and his family had packed their furniture and belongings into a shed in their backyard seven years ago when he was assigned to Fort Hood.

“We would come back periodically to get away,” Hollie Burbank said. “We also let other relatives live there off and on while we were gone.”

According to investigators, the squatters had broken open a door and lived in the wood frame house about two days before being discovered. They slept on an old mattress on the floor and put all the Burbanks’ belongings outside to sell.

One of Hollie Burbank’s relatives happened to drive by Tuesday and reported the situation.

“I don’t know what’s gone. But there are a lot of sentimental things there that I could never replace,” Hollie Burbank said. Among them was the torn photo of her grandmother that investigators found on the lawn.

Evans and some firefighters worked in the rain to gather the family’s belongings still there and return them to the shed.

“This just isn’t right,” he said.


42 posted on 02/01/2012 4:13:01 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Apogee

When I was a boy there were some campers who died doing just that.


43 posted on 02/01/2012 6:24:37 AM PST by albionin
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To: smokingfrog

doesn’t stealing a house seem like something that would violate a parole?


44 posted on 02/01/2012 6:49:44 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: wolficatZ

Soon to be one of the before/after - faces of meth.


45 posted on 02/01/2012 6:54:45 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: GeronL

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/docs/PE/htm/PE.30.htm


46 posted on 02/01/2012 6:57:41 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Apogee; mylife
Years ago, our older neighbors here in the desert invited us over on New Years Eve......they had a roaring fire going in the fireplace; I noticed that the wood was his oleander cuttings, so we 'excused' ourselves after just a few minutes and came back home.

Good thing they had good drafting, because the fumes are indeed also toxic.

47 posted on 02/01/2012 7:06:02 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Carterize Obama in November)
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To: Secret Agent Man; Zeppelin

“I clearly heard him say he was going to kill me”...


48 posted on 02/01/2012 7:07:51 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Carterize Obama in November)
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To: smokingfrog
That is where my mother's family is from and I still have some 3rd and 4th cousins living there. But these are NOT my cousins, I swear they aren't! :[
49 posted on 02/01/2012 7:14:53 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

50 posted on 02/01/2012 7:19:35 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

Well..... he does look a little bit like cousin Jake. :D


51 posted on 02/01/2012 7:28:55 AM PST by Ditter
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To: smokingfrog

Where were the Burbank’s neighbors... didn’t anyone ask “Who are these people?” and contact the Burbanks or the police to let them know something suspicious was going on?


52 posted on 02/01/2012 7:52:17 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: ErnBatavia

Holy carp! That’s scary!


53 posted on 02/01/2012 4:08:37 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I am sorry to hear that.


54 posted on 02/01/2012 4:11:05 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: DTogo

A relative noticed the yard sale and turned the squatters in to th epolice.


55 posted on 02/01/2012 4:41:39 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: mylife

Well, it became a family legend.


56 posted on 02/01/2012 4:43:15 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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