Vacant Homes In Foreclosure Being Used As Hang-Outs, Party Pads

The following recent stories report how some vacant homes in foreclosure are being put to use:

• Mesa, Arizona: Vandals using vacant homes as party pads (Police in east Mesa noticed a "flare up" earlier this month in vacant houses being broken into and vandalized by teenagers looking for a place to hold parties),

• Framingham, Massachusetts: Foreclosed Framingham house attracts trouble (Police go the same house for two reported break-ins within 12 hours; the officers reportedly got there just in time to see a group of four people leaving the house, trying to run away - all four were caught and told cops they were "hanging out" in the empty house),

• Oxnard, California: 15 arrested in activities at 2 homes left vacant (According to police, two handguns were recovered from one of the homes in what they say appeared to be a gang-related gathering. They found gang graffiti and vandalism at both homes, which had several thousand dollars in damage, according to a police statement),

• Macomb County, Michigan: Teens arrested, released (According to police, a 19-year-old man and a juvenile were arrested after neighbors spotted them coming out of a house that is in foreclosure; the suspects reportedly told deputies they stayed in the house after they got the keys from a girl who used to live there before foreclosure proceedings started).

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