Trespassers at our vacant Clay St Apartment Arrested August 25 2022

 

2 of the trespassers at Clay St apartment house. Girl talking to police was one of those arrested. My daughter that lives close by is on the porch in the background.

About 10;30 this morning I got a call from a man that lives next door to our Clay St, Watertown apartment house. He saw people entering the only vacant unit. I called city police and headed there. It seems a man somehow pried the door open. He then told his girlfriend that he had an apartment and she could move in. A friend of hers dove her over there and proceeded to move in a few boxes of her belongings. UNREAL! I have no idea who these people were, never saw them before. I insisted upon them being arrested for trespassing. Well, police told me 2 of the three were. The man & the girlfriend. 

When the police arrived all three were in the apartment. The man got spooked and jumped out a back window. Police chased him down, capturing him a few blocks away. 

I believe this miscreant is a homeless person and has been visiting the fellow in the adjacent apartment. He saw the apartment had been vacant for a couple of months, so this morning he decided to let himself in.

After the dust settled I replaced the lock set and put a lock on the rear basement door. 

2 of the trespassers. Woman at left was charged with trespassing. Woman at right wasn't charged.

Unbelievably to me is girlfriend of man that broke into our vacant apartment started moving stuff in.

Unbelievably to me is girlfriend of man that broke into our vacant apartment started moving stuff in.

Unbelievably to me is girlfriend of man that broke into our vacant apartment started moving stuff in.

When I got home to Chaumont I had a beer and then mowed the backyard.