Owner In Foreclosure Loses Personal Possessions; Contents Seized & Auctioned Off As Alleged Drug Dealer Holding 3rd Mortgage Moves Into $2M+ Home

In Vancouver, British Columbia, The Vancouver Sun reports:

• The owner of a Shaughnessy heritage home was in tears after learning that all her worldly possessions had been seized by a bailiff and sold at auction. Gail Hewitt is also angry that the man who has taken possession of her $2-million-plus home is an accused drug dealer, Robert Luigi Poloni. Poloni holds a $600,000 third mortgage on Hewitt's house, [...] which is in the midst of foreclosure proceedings. Hewitt, who is living in California, said her neighbours called her about three weeks ago and told her someone had moved into her house.(1)

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• Hewitt said the contents of her home were worth about $400,000. "I had about $100,000 worth of clothes, fur coats, at least $50,000 worth of jewelry, furniture, a $40,000 grand piano and five oriental rugs, some worth $15,000," she said in an interview. [...] "I can't believe it's all gone and it's all sold," Hewitt said, crying. "There's nothing I can do. Everything I own has been taken away from me."

For more, see Shaughnessy homeowner stunned by sale of possessions (Says she did not know she was dealing with an accused drug trafficker).

For story update, see Judge rules against Shaughnessy homeowner who sought more time to sell home.

(1) According to the story, Hewitt's neighbors took photos of two men on the property and she recognized them as Poloni and Robbie Della Penna, who were jointly charged with cocaine trafficking offences but were acquitted by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask. The Crown has filed a notice to appeal those acquittals. Neighbours called Hewitt again Sept. 10 to tell her that trucks had arrived on her property and were taking out her furniture and personal property.