Squatters allegedly take over Colorado home of elderly man with dementia, start mushroom growing operation inside: This isnt their first rodeo

The daughters of a Colorado Springs couple are alleging that a homeless woman, her boyfriend and her son have taken advantage of their father, who suffers from dementia, and taken over their parents’ house of 50 years.William Towns, 76, met the woman while he was out walking his dog and saw that she was living out of her car, his daughters wrote in a GoFundMe initiative for legal expenses.His wife, Arlene, was staying with one of her daughters while she recovered from major heart surgery. “[The homeless woman] offered to do some household chores for him, to which he agreed.

Chores turned into using his shower on occasion and then sleeping in a guest room of his home for what he understood to only be a number of days,” Towns’ daughters wrote. But the woman “quickly took advantage” of the man, moving two non-working automobiles, many of her belongings, her 15-year-old son, her boyfriend and her cat into the house. “[The boyfriend] harasses our dad and our family and friends when asked to leave,” the daughters wrote.“He has provoked altercations with our dad on numerous occasions and gets into arguments with a number of unknown other groups of people that come by the property to seek him out.”Now, Towns is “extremely uncomfortable having these people and their associates in his home, and is fearful of his safety when at the house.”The daughters claim that the squatters have started up a “mushroom growing operation” in the couple’s living room, that there is “underage drug use” in the home, that they “intentionally flash” firearms at security cameras installed in the home, that they “turn on faucets and the hose just to let water run” and “leave every light on in the house 24/7.”“They spend their days living in the home as if it is their own, rummaging through drawers and cupboards, going through storage items, using all appliances, dishes, tools, food in the refrigerator and pantries, etc.,” the GoFundMe states....