On December 9, homeowner Loletha Hale found herself in the back of a police squad car, handcuffed, watching as a woman she described as a squatter entered her home in the Atlanta suburb of Clayton County to stay the night.
“To see that woman walk into my mom’s house while I was in the police car, something is wrong with this picture,” Hale told Channel 2 Action News. “Something is inherently wrong with this picture.”
Hale had called the police to her residence, which had belonged to her mother, after spotting Sakemeyia Johnson inside. It wasn’t the first time. Hale first saw Johnson oc cupying the home in August, leading to an expensive, months-long court fight. At one point, Johnson declared bankruptcy, listing Hale as her sole creditor.
Clayton County Magistrate Court Judge Latrevia Lates-Johnson eventually ruled that Sakemeyia Johnson was not a squatter “because she is related to a previously evicted tenant’s partner.”
Hale said she didn’t know Sakemeyia Johnson or the former tenant’s partner.