The Officer and the Dead Man's House

🚔 A welfare check. 🏠 A dead man's house. 🪪 A badge that allegedly opened every door.

In July 2022, Lauderhill police officer Brian Louis Sguros showed up as backup on a welfare check and found homeowner Dennis West dead inside. 💔 According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, what happened next is the stuff of nightmares: telling the medical examiner West had NO family (he did 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦), taking over the house within weeks 🔑, paying the bills in a dead man's name 💡, a permit "signed" by West two years after he died ✍🏾 with a notary stamp the notary says isn't hers, and SEVEN police database searches pulling up West's Social Security number. 💻😡

Ronda calls it what it is — disgusting, if it's true — and asks the question that should keep all of us up at night: 🤔 how many more are out there that nobody caught? She brings the numbers on officers who break the law 📊 and how often they actually lose their jobs (spoiler: only about half the time 😤).

Then she gives you the playbook 📋 to protect your family's home when someone you love passes — before somebody else decides it's theirs. 🛡️

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