"When Surprise police arrested a man for stripping his foreclosed home of a dishwasher, oven and air-conditioning units last week, officials highlighted a rash of problems that have gone largely unsolved across the Valley.
Despite hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of similar offenses in the Phoenix area, authorities believe the Tuesday arrest of Roberto Garcia, who was arrested on charges of criminal damage and defrauding a secured creditor, is part of only a handful of its kind in the Valley since the start of the housing crisis.
Police, neighbors and task-force officers have reported finding homes in the process of foreclosure without toilets, bathtubs and even spiral staircases."
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Foreclosures fuel home stripping by ex-owners
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