An Army officer is speaking out after a squatter moved into her Georgia home while she was away on active duty.
Lt. Col. Dahlia Daure told Atlanta-based ABC affiliate WSB-TV last week that she is part of the U.S. Army Reserves and is stationed in Chicago but was in the process of selling her home when a squatter moved in.
Daure told the outlet that the squatter, Vincent Simon, said he had a lease and paid $19,000 upfront for six months.
“That was quite alarming to find out that someone else had moved into my home,” she said Thursday on “Fox News Tonight.”
WSB-TV reported Simon was served with eviction papers and that Daure would have to wait for the process to play out in order to get him removed from the home.
However, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said its Uniform Unit and the DeKalb Marshals served an intruder affidavit Thursday requiring Simon to “immediately vacate an Ellenwood home in DeKalb County owned by a military officer.”