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Inspection Status: Approved
Inspection History: INSP - INITIAL CODE ENFORCMENT
| Date |
Description |
Inspector |
Results |
Comments |
| 09/12/2005 |
INSP - INITIAL CODE ENFORCMENT |
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Approved |
READ POLICE REPORT PRIOR TO VISITING SITE. UPON ARRIVAL IT LOOKED AS IF HOUSE WAS OCCUPIED. THERE WAS A CAR IN THE FRONT DRIVE HOWERVER TIRES HAD BEEN FLATTENED. KNOCKED ON THE FRONT DOOR WHERE I WAS GREETED BY OCCUPANT WHO IDENTIFIED HERSELF AS GLORIA EVELYN SIERRAS, GLORIA MENTIONED THAT SHE WAS THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY BUT HAS BEEN LIVING IN CALIFORNIA NOW FOR SEVERAL YEARS IN WHICH TIME SHE WOULD BRIEFLY RETURN AND OCCUPY THE STRUCTURE AND THEN RETURN TO CALIFORNIA. SHE HAD DECIDED TO MOVE BACK TO TUCSON AND HAS NOW BEEN OCCUPYING THE STRUCTURE FOR APPROX. 2 1/2 MONTHS. SHE WAS NOTIFIED BY NEIGHBOR ROY PALLENOS THAT THE STRUCTURE HAD BEEN BROKEN INTO. SHE WAS ALSO NOTIFIED BY HER SISTER WHOSE SON HAD BEEN BY AND INFORMED HIS MOTHER THAT STRUCTURE LOOKED BROKEN INTO. WHEN GLORIA ARRIVED BACK IN TUCSON SHE FOUND FRONT AND BACK DOOR TO STRUCTURE HAD BEEN BREACHED. INSIDE THE STRUCTURE SHE FOUND THE HOUSE HAD BEEN RANSACKED. GLORIA MEENTIONED THAT SINCE SHE HAS BEEN HERE SHE HAS SPENT TIME CLEANING AND PICKING UP BOTH INSIDE AND OUT. MRS. SIERRAS MENTIONED THAT SHE DID NOT FEEL AS IF SHE NEEDED THE HOUSE INSPECTED BUT THAT I COULD SEE THAT SEE HAD BEEN MAKING PROGRESS CLEANING THE PREMISES AS SHE DID ALLOW ME TO SEE THE INSIDE AND SHOWED ME THE EXTERIOR OF THE PROPERTY.INSIDE IT APPEARED AS THOUGH THERE WAS A ROOF LEAK EVIDENCED BY WATER STAINS AND PAINT PEELING FROM THE CEILING EXPOSING DRYWALL AND TAPE JOINTS. TWO ROOMS HAD NOT YET BEEN CLEANED UP FROM THE BREAK IN BUT KITCHEN, DINING ROOM, AND LIVINGROOM HAD BEEN CLEANED AND WERE LIVABLE. MRS. SIERRAS ALSO MENTIONED THAT SHE HAD CONTACTED COUNCIL FOR THE AGING TO SEE ABOUT GETTING HELP REPAIRING OR REPLACING THE ROOF. SHE ALSO MENTIONED THAT SEE IS LOW INCOME AND ON DISABILITY. MRS. SIERRAS ASKED IF SHE COULD OBTAIN COPIES OF THE POLICE REPORT WHICH WOULD HELP IN FILING AN INSURANCE CLAIM. I GAVE THE POLICE REPORT NUMBER AND OFFICER'S NAME, DIRECTED HER ON HOW AND WHERE TO OBTAIN THE POLICE REPORT. SHE MENTIONED THAT SHE WOULD BE RETURNING TO CALIFORNIA IN APPROX. TWO WEEKS TO OBTAIN PERSONAL BELONGINGS AND THEN RETURN. WHILE SHE IS GONE, BOTH NEIGHBORS WILL BE WATCHING THE HOUSE FOR HER BUT WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF POLICE MIGHT MONITOR IT ALSO. PICTURES WERE TAKEN OF THE FRONT EXTERIOR OF THE HOUSE. RESIDENCE IS BEING OCCUPIED BY THE OWNER AT THIS TIME. DNR HAS NO FURTHER ISSUES. CASE CLOSED!! |