Squatters and crime are taking over a Fife apartment complex. Families and the people handling the property are both beyond frustrated.
The problems are at the Sherwood Park Apartments. Police say the situation also attracted a ton of criminal activity. Now officers regularly patrol the area because of all the problems.
Most of the units at the complex are covered in plywood.
“It’s bad,” said Angel, a resident at the apartments. “The cops are here 24/7. Every day, every night. I keep my kids inside. I don’t let them out.”
She didn’t want to share her last name and was too scared to show her face on camera.
Angel said she’s lived at the Sherwood Park Apartments for eight years. But two years ago, everything went downhill.
“Shootings everywhere, crackheads bringing in stolen cars,” Angel said.
Mark Vohr is a representative for the trust company handling the property. He said the property’s owner died a couple of years ago, leaving the property in a trust.
He said one day, the stack of paperwork landed in his lap. It came with about 1/3 of the units vacant, plus other problems.