Officers raided a Northeast Portland home on Tuesday and arrested “squatters” who had moved in while the house’s owner was away for medical reasons and turned it into “a significant source of disruption in the neighborhood,” the Portland Police Bureau said.
When officers served a search warrant on the property, they found 13 people inside — as well an illegally owned gun, 22 grams of methamphetamine, 13 grams of fentanyl, one gram of cocaine, a stolen motorcycle and a large amount of ammunition, as well as evidence of identity theft, fraud and narcotics distribution, police said.
One person was even posing as the house’s landlord and charging people rent, police said. Police added that the property, which is near the intersection of Northeast Thompson Street and 102nd Avenue, had become the source of a “high volume” of police calls over the last year since the people had moved in…