Foreclosed 15-Bedroom "Monster House" Homeowner Admits To Stripping $1M In Fixtures From Mansion; Now Faces Felony Grand Theft, Vandalism Charges

In Encinitas, California, The San Diego Union Tribune reports:

• The woman who built the county’s largest home — known as the “monster house” — and lost it to foreclosure in February admitted [...] that she stripped it of $1 million in fixtures, but said it was to protect her masterpiece after the bank refused to hire security. Suzy Brown, 45, said she returned everything. But seven months after the property agent for Capital One Bank filed a police report, the District Attorney’s Office charged Brown [...] with felony grand theft and felony vandalism. [...] “I basically took the law into my own hands to protect a very special place,” Brown said in an interview [...]. “I removed the most valuable assets and I promptly returned them once they had a security guard.”

• The bank foreclosed on the 15-bedroom Encinitas house Feb. 13 after Brown had not made payments for more than a year. She moved out March 22, and the missing items were reported March 26.

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