Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officer-impersonates-dead-florida-man-moved-into-home-rcna604844

48•Michelangelo11•2h ago

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kaydub•2h ago

Cop stole house from dead man. Then cop sued company that rightfully bought house from dead man's heirs?

JumpCrisscross•2h ago

It’s always surprising how craftiness and intelligence, which one would expect to be joined at the hip, can exist almost independently to each other.

tanseydavid•2h ago

I cannot help but wonder, "What did the cop do with the body?"

triceratops•1h ago

The story has a video showing paramedics or someone taking the body away on a stretcher.

wrs•1h ago

I take it you stopped reading before the fifth paragraph.

lazide•2h ago

In this case, more like sometime someone can buy their lies so much even they start to believe them?

p1necone•30m ago

I've long thought that pure desire/drive is much more important than intelligence in just about everything, including things that stereotypically require intelligence like programming, math etc.

Fricken•12m ago

By "everything" I'm presuming you mean the trivial little games that humans these days are preoccupied with. You can play those games if you like, but they won't save you. Everybody dies in the end no matter how smart or motivated they are. The final score is always zero.

triceratops•1h ago

> Sguros [the cop] claimed he spent at least $214,000 of his own money on the home.

If he spent so much, why not just buy his own house? The house in the article is nothing special to look at.

cowlevel•43m ago

does a house cost below $214,000 now? I haven't heard the news that the market crashed.

Jtsummers•41m ago

$214k is more than I have spent on the home I "own" (have a mortgage on) even adding in my downpayment over the last 7 years. He could have bought a home for what he claims to have spent.

cowlevel•30m ago

A house price is a house price, you can't say it's only 20%.

Jtsummers•28m ago

Your original comment to which I was replying when you edited your comment:

> You have to count the total amount you will pay on the mortgage.

Yes. That's what I was counting, I have spent less than $214k on my house, repairs and mortgage.

Your comment after that was edited:

> A house price is a house price, you can't say it's only 20%.

What are you talking about? The question is could he have afforded a house for $214k, and the answer is yes. Houses in that area don't cost a minimum of $1 million, even the house he attempted to steal wasn't worth that much.

cowlevel

SoftTalker•58m ago

Assuming the identity of a dead person was (is still?) a common form of fraud. People (usually relatives) could collect pension and social security payments sometimes for years before being discovered (if they ever were).

jrflowers•30m ago

That he is being prosecuted for this is a sad example of why officers need stronger qualified immunity for snap decisions made in the line of duty

phs318u•23m ago

You forgot the /s

ethin•20m ago

I can't tell if this is satire or not, but I'm suspecting that it is

jrflowers•14m ago

Who is to say he wasn’t in fear for his life when he stole the house? Maybe the house committed a crime and he was detaining it. Civilians just don’t know the challenges faced by our boys in blue

paxy•25m ago

The most surprising part of this story is that a police officer got arrested and charged with a felony.

breezybottom•23m ago

Happens like every week. Maybe you just don't read news outside HN.

apt-apt-apt-apt•12m ago

That's one way to get a home.

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