Indiana women arrested for attempting to live in vacant home

CLARKSVILLE, Ind. — Two ladies are within the Clark County Jail after police stated they had been caught residing in a home that wasn’t theirs.

Based on a launch from the Clark County Sheriff’s Workplace, a sheriff’s deputy arrested Erika Kovalevska from Jeffersonville and Samantha Perez from Charlestown on April 23.

The sheriff’s workplace stated officers responded to a vacant house on Marion Martin Rd. in Charlestown early Saturday morning to look right into a report of an individual residing there. Once they arrived, they discovered the 2 ladies inside.

The ladies had been questioned and Kovalesvka advised officers that she had been canvassing the world and seen that the home was empty. The discharge says she admitted to coming into the home and cleansing it so she might “transfer in.”

Kovalesvka advised police that she did not know who owned the home however she was conscious of “squatter’s rights” as a result of she was “getting ready to be a lawyer,” based on the discharge.

“Squatter’s rights,” also called antagonistic possession, permit somebody to take over a chunk of property in the event that they’ve lived there lengthy sufficient, beneath sure circumstances, based on Kerrick Bachert Legislation.

Based on the Clark County Sheriff, Perez advised police that Kovalesvka invited her over to the home to assist her clear. Perez additionally stated they’d been smoking meth.

Officers stated they discovered methamphetamine and a glass smoking pipe inside the home.

The discharge says the person who owns the property advised the sheriff’s workplace that he didn’t give anybody permission to remain there.

Kovalesvka and Perez are going through Residential Entry and drug costs.

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