EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — Authorities in El Paso have evicted more than 20 people from a home in northeast El Paso, where they were reportedly living without permission.

The property, located at 5733 Hemmingway Drive, had become a source of distress for neighbors over the past six months.

KINT spoke with Danny Zamora, the El Paso Constable for Precinct 2, who said that 22 to 25 people were removed from an empty home on Hemmingway Drive and McCombs Street, near Dyer.

Zamora said stolen property was found inside the home and that the El Paso Police Department arrested five people suspected of stealing.

According to Zamora, the eviction was due to new owners buying the house and going through the process of getting these people out.

Roxanne Hall, a neighbor, said, “I feel like a prisoner in my own home, and I couldn’t leave.”

The El Paso Constables’ office reported that up to 60 people had been living in the home, which had been unoccupied since the property owners died over a decade ago.

Neighbors described the situation as chaotic, with routine music and near-daily fights disturbing the peace.

Eva, another neighbor, said, “Uncomfortable, because I go to work at 4:30 in the morning. So I mean, I have to wait for them to finish fighting so I can open the gate and then leave right away.”

The constables’ office received numerous complaints about the smell of feces emanating from the property.

Hall noted, “We were worried because there was, like, tons of tents in the backyard that was pretty intense smelling we call the fire department all the time.”

The eviction operation involved multiple agencies, including the El Paso Police Department, the DEA, and the Attorney General’s office.

Sgt. Deja Pascale of the El Paso Constable’s office stated, “Our office, constable’s office of precinct two, we had the constable’s office of precinct one, precinct four, precinct six and precinct seven. We also had El Paso Police Department assisting. We had the DEA and also the Attorney General, state police. They all helped us with that to where it was a successful remover of these squatters.”

Some of the individuals who identified as squatters expressed off-camera that they had nowhere else to go and were simply trying to live their lives.

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