Officers were called out Wednesday to the Bankers Hill neighborhood near downtown San Diego after receiving a report that a man had forced entry into a home, only to discover themselves embroiled in the middle of something completely different.
According to San Diego police, the original call came into 911 operators about a person trying to enter a home in the 200 block of Ivy Street, near the corner of Albatross Street, through a window.
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Responding officers then dealt with the situation as a burglary call, but, having obtained more information, determined the man in the building was, in fact, a tenant and his landlord was in the process of evicting him.
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