Associated Press
SURPRISE, Arizona -- Unable to sell his house in suburban Phoenix's anemic real estate market, Jason Winterholler rented to a couple who paid the deposit in cash and didn't haggle over price.
It was a deal he came to regret.
The renters were fronts for alien smugglers who used the house as a hiding place for illegal aliens and trashed the place. In October, a SWAT team drove an armored personnel carrier onto the lawn and raided the house, rounding up nearly two dozen people.
Posted by tyne at December 20, 2007