A Florida police officer who discovered a dead man inside his home allegedly saw an opportunity to make himself comfortable – moving into the property, embarking on a lavish renovation and even borrowing the corpse’s identity to get building work approved.
Brian Louis Sguros, 35, is accused of commandeering Dennis Ionis West’s house just weeks after uncovering his stone cold body during a welfare check, before spending years transforming the property while its legal ownership remained tied to the dead man.
However, the most startling allegation concerns a building permit application submitted more than two years after West died, which investigators say
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