{"id":41057,"date":"2024-01-17T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=41057"},"modified":"2024-01-17T21:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:28:47","slug":"seven-squatters-busted-in-florida-short-term-rental-apartment-as-sheriff-jokes-he-may-have-arrested-one-of-his-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/01\/17\/seven-squatters-busted-in-florida-short-term-rental-apartment-as-sheriff-jokes-he-may-have-arrested-one-of-his-cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Squatters Busted in Florida Short-Term Rental Apartment as Sheriff Jokes He May Have Arrested One of His Cousins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;re related or not, but if so, I&#8217;ve locked up one of my cousins in the county jail,&#8217; Sheriff Grady Judd said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The owners of a&nbsp;short-term rental&nbsp;home in central&nbsp;Florida&nbsp;woke up to surprise on their surveillance camera when they saw their house was occupied by seven people who had not reserved the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd explained the story in a video posted to the office&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/polkcountysheriff\/videos\/3642439302711590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social media pages<\/a>. The house that was broken into was in the Solterra Resort community in Davenport, Florida, Judd said.<\/p>\n\n\n        \n        <div class=\"embedpress-gutenberg-wrapper source-provider-Youtube aligncenter ep-clear   ep-content-protection-disabled inline\" id=\"94c7e243-8877-45b5-b8e5-8f8e23fc5dad\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube \">\n            <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper \">\n                <div id=\"ep-gutenberg-content-a3101622feb4bb696717d02039653d3d\" class=\"ep-gutenberg-content\">\n                    <div >\n                        <div class=\"ep-embed-content-wraper preset-default insta-grid ep-google-photos-carousel\"\n                            style=\"max-width:600px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"                                                                                                                >\n\n                            <div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-b187c16e3942d36543d6ee197d2d2a82 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:340px; max-height:340px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Morning briefing, Jan. 17, 2024\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6s5uyCNAyEg?feature=oembed&#038;color=red&#038;rel=1&#038;controls=2&#038;start=true&#038;end=true&#038;fs=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"Seven Squatters Busted in Florida Short-Term Rental Apartment as Sheriff Jokes He May Have Arrested One of His Cousins!\"><\/iframe><\/div>                        <\/div>\n\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;People come from all over the world to stay in these houses,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The owner of the home, who lives out of the country, checked their surveillance cameras to notice the house was occupied when it should have been empty, Judd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The owners called the sheriff&#8217;s office and deputies surrounded the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We could see them scurrying and running around in the house they didn&#8217;t immediately come out,&#8221; Judd explained in the video. &#8220;One of them started to climb out the window on the side of the house.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Judd, the one who tried to flee from the window quickly hopped back inside when he spotted the deputies outside. Eventually, the group started to exit the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The people kept coming out of the house \u2013 seven of them,&#8221; Judd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their ages ranged from 17 to 23, Judd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheriff only identified one of the suspects by name and noted he had family in Tennessee with the same surname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;re related or not, but if so, I&#8217;ve locked up one of my cousins in the county jail,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All seven of the occupants were arrested for burglary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Come on man, stay out of people&#8217;s property or visit with us at the jail,&#8221; Judd said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;re related or not, but if so, I&#8217;ve locked up one of my cousins in the county jail,&#8217; Sheriff Grady Judd said The owners of a&nbsp;short-term&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[7308],"class_list":["post-41057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-seven-squatters-busted-in-florida-short-term-rental-apartment-as-sheriff-jokes-he-may-have-arrested-one-of-his-cousins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41059,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41057\/revisions\/41059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}