Marco Velazquez owns a South Side home in Chicago that he was trying sell. One day earlier this month, his realtor went by the home to show it to a potential buyer and discovered a couple had already moved in and claimed they were the rightful owners. Velazquez called the police.
“I couldn’t believe it. It was like a nightmare,” Velazquez said.
Velazquez says a woman named Shermaine and her boyfriend, Codarro, moved in, claiming they recently purchased the property…
Velazquez’s realtor recorded a video as the couple explained to police that they had a right to be there.
“The worst thing happened, when police told me they couldn’t do anything. It needs to go to a civil court,” Velazquez said.
The couple who’d moved in showed police a fake sale document. No such sale had been registered with Cook County, but police saw it as a problem for the courts to sort…
