BALTIMORE — Darryl Brown warned the city months ago there could be a fire.
Squatters had been living in the house Brown purchased in Carrollton Ridge in Southwest Baltimore and planned to renovate as an investment, and he wanted them gone. He said he tried asking them to leave, but they refused. So Brown called the police, but he said the officers couldn’t help him without a court order.
He filed for an eviction the next day, Dec. 3.
