The woman convicted of sawing locks off a house in Streator and trying to live in it has been charged with trespassing at the same house again. Streator police say they arrested 55-year old Donna Casey-Schultz at the home in the 400 block of S. Vermillion St. She was given a notice to appear in court. During her trial, Casey-Schultz said she had a lease for the place in 2016 and didn’t know she wasn’t allowed to be there. Edgar Balanos Gonzalez bought the house in 2018. He testified he never gave Casey-Schultz permission to be there. He said the house was unlivable without utilities and undergoing extensive remodeling. He was out of state on August 29 when his wife called him by telephone to tell him about a woman refusing to leave.
Casey-Schultz testified that she had a lease with the previous owner since 2016 and it was never terminated as far as she knew. She said she used an electric reciprocating saw to remove the lock. Gonzalez testified that lock was there because the workers he hired had equipment inside. After her trial, Casey-Schultz was sentenced to a year of court supervision and had to stay off the property or the previous trespassing charge would end up on her record.