A self-described, extra-legal “squatter removal service” was allegedly being run by a sword-wielding, San Francisco-based guy who, along with two associates, now faces assault, burglary, and false imprisonment charges in San Mateo County.
The charges, as KPIX reports, stem from a January 6 incident in which 40-year-old James Jacobs, along with associates Arthur Gutierrez Jr., 40, and Angelmike Va Regalado, 39, allegedly led a group of seven armed intruders who descended on a home in San Bruno where five people had been living at 2:30 in the morning.
The home, on Allen Drive in San Bruno just east of Skyline College, was occupied by a man who had reportedly been living there for 45 years, according to the San Mateo County DA’s office, along with his family. The home had been owned by his mother, however after she died, the home had been sold to a new owner. According to the victim, eviction proceedings had not begun, and it seems the new owner had leased the property to an employee of Jacobs at his ASAP Squatter Removal Service…