43 DUNN ST., OAKVILLE, ONT.

ASKING PRICE: $5.5-million

TAXES: $21,579 (2013)

LOT SIZE: 104 by 135 feet

AGENT: Alex Irish (Re/Max Aboutowne Realty Corp.)

The back story

The Victorian mansion at 43 Dunn St. was built for Cecil Marlatt in 1880. Mr. Marlatt was the owner of the Marlatt and Armstrong Tannery and a well-known supporter of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.

The original property stretched to the edge of Lake Ontario to the south, with an orchard of fruit trees in front of the house. A greenhouse, playhouse, stables and two fish ponds also occupied the surrounding land. Afternoon tea was served in a summer house that overlooked a cricket pitch and a lawn tennis court, according to real estate agent Alex Irish of ReMax Aboutowne Realty Corp.

Over time, more houses were built on the streets of Olde Oakville. The house at 43 Dunn is about one block from the water and two blocks from the centre of downtown shopping in Oakville.

The current owners, Clive and Hilary Maile, lived on the waterfront in the late 1990s when they went for a walk through the undulating streets of Olde Oakville and saw a for sale sign in front of No. 43.

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The Merced County Sheriffs Department seized more than 300 marijuana plants Wednesday and nearly 100 pounds of trimmed buds from a Merced home that deputies described as a commercial operation.

Deputy Ray Framstad said the residents paid someone to bypass electrical wiring, which allowed the growers to steal more than $20,000 in electricity from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over the last six months.

Sheriffs detectives raided the home in the 2100 block of West Highway 140 early Wednesday and found the houses four-car garage had been converted into a growing operation.

This is one of those residential-neighborhood grows that are prime targets for home-invasion robberies, Framstad said. They create a real danger for the safety of the community.

Deputies seized 305 plants and about 95 pounds of marijuana buds with a combined estimated street value of about $735,000. Investigators said it was at least the second grow cycle at the home, bringing the total estimated value of the operation to more than $1.4 million, the Sheriffs Department said.

Detectives will seek criminal cultivation and utility theft charges against two residents, 46-year-old Florentino Gutierrez and 38-year-old Maria Villfan, both of Delhi. Deputies described them as a married couple. Efforts to reach them Wednesday by telephone were unsuccessful.

Investigators do not believe the growers were connected to any larger trafficking operations such as cartels or street gangs, but allege they were selling marijuana commercially.

Framstad said Child Protective Services would be asked to review the case as a precaution because there was a teenage girl living at the home. However, he said the marijuana was secured behind locked gates and did not appear easily accessible. The child was not removed from the home, the Sheriffs Department confirmed.

Gutierrez had a medical marijuana recommendation for up to 99 plants, but in Merced County residents are only allowed a maximum of 12 plants per parcel of land.

But, even with the 99 plants, this grow was still well above that number, Framstad said.

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LACEY'S SPRING, Alabama - Following the arrest last week of a man accused of striping wiring and siding from a Lacey's Spring mobile home, Morgan County Sheriff Ana Franklin is seeking information on two others who may have been involved.

Daniel Chace Goodner, 21, of 108 Dudley Road in Lacey's Spring, was charged with third-degree burglary after authorities said they followed a trail of debris from the unoccupied mobile home of Skyview Drive to Goodner's house.

"Witnesses have reported seeing three men involved in this offense," Franklin said.

The sheriff hopes the public can provide information leading to their apprehension. Anyone with information should call Investigator Chad Smith at 256-560-6198 any time to leave a message. Callers may remain anonymous.

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JEFFERSON COUNTY For weeks, residents of the Brookside Mobile Home Park worried theyd be homeless.

The fear began when letters from the Northeast Public Sewer District showed up in early February at the park near Fenton.

Unfortunately, the owner of Brookside Mobile Home Park has not been paying the bill for sanitary sewer service, and the district has been making attempts to collect the balance due without success, the letter read. This leaves the district with no choice but to terminate service to the park. Without sanitary sewer service, Jefferson County could declare the park unfit for occupancy and the park could not be occupied.

The unpaid bill is more than $90,000.

The deadline to pay before cutting off service to the roughly 200 homes initially was Monday, but has been pushed back to April 10.

Resident Edward Sockbeson didnt know what to do. He and his wife Cindy had dutifully paid their monthly $340 pad rent, which was supposed to cover sewer, water and trash, he said.

Their mobile home, which they bought about nine years ago for $4,000, is not fit to move. And they didnt have anywhere to take it anyway.

We were trying to figure out where wed have to go and find a place, and we dont have the money to put down for first months rent, said Edward Sockbeson, 57.

On Monday, Cindy Sockbeson and four other Brookside residents filed suit against Jeffco Holdings, owner of the park. They are represented by John Ammann, a St. Louis University law professor who directs the schools legal clinic.

Ammann and students Ben Tiller and Angela Kunz appeared before Jefferson County Circuit Judge Gary Kramer on Thursday. They asked him to order that starting next month, rent checks are paid to Public Administrator Steve Farmers office, which will then pay the bills their rent is supposed to cover. Bob Hembrock, the sewer districts executive director, and Bob Sweeney, the districts attorney, were there too and had no objections to the plan, which Kramer approved.

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LACEY'S SPRING, Alabama - Morgan County authorities followed a trail of debris left when a mobile home was vandalized and found a suspect in the burglary of a central heat and air conditioning unit, electrical wiring and aluminum siding, Sheriff Ana Franklin said.

Daniel Chace Goodner, 21, of 108 Dudley Road in Lacey's Spring was arrested and charged with third-degree burglary. He remains in Morgan County Jail, where he is being held on $2,500 bond, Franklin said.

The sheriff said the owner of the unoccupied mobile home went to check the property on Skyview Drive on Wednesday.

"She found that someone had taken the central heat and central air unit, stripped electrical wiring from the walls and removed aluminum siding from the outside of the mobile home," Franklin said. "A patrol deputy responded to take the report, and noticed there was a trail of debris leading from the vandalized mobile home to another location. Neighbors reported that they remembered seeing a local man in the area wearing work gloves."

An investigator was called to the scene and officers were able to track the debris left from stripping the mobile home to Goodner's home, where they found the property stolen from the mobile home in plain view.

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Authorities seized more than 500 marijuana plants this week from a Los Banos home believed to be connected to a large drug trafficking enterprise.

This was an organized, highly sophisticated operation, Los Banos police Cmdr. Jason Hedden said. Investigators found numerous ballast systems and indoor lights inside the home.

No arrests were made Thursday when the Merced County Multi-Agency Narcotics Task Force raided a home in the 700 block of Friguglietti Avenue, though multiple suspects are wanted in connection with the growing operation. Suspect descriptions were not available Friday.

There was no one at the home when the search warrant was served, Hedden said.

Agents seized about 520 marijuana plants and about 4 pounds of trimmed marijuana buds, with an estimated street value of about $1.7 million, Merced County Sheriffs Deputy Ray Framstad said.

This is a neighborhood with a lot of young children, little kids that play in their yards, Framstad said. This grow created a significant danger in the neighborhood of potential robberies or violence.

Framstad said the complicated electrical wiring involved a large amount of utility theft and created a serious fire hazard.

All the electricity they pulled to operate the lights had melted underground electrical wires, he said.

Framstad said the case was developed by the task force with Los Banos police Officer Marcelino Cortez as lead investigator, but said he could not elaborate on what initiated the case. Efforts to reach the task force directly were unsuccessful Friday.

The Los Banos Police Department and the Merced County Sheriffs Department assisted with the raid.

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A March 1 fire at Bennie Smith Funeral Home in Millsboro was accidental, the state fire marshal says.

The Delaware State Fire Marshal's office determined the fire started in the first-floor ceiling and was caused by an electrical malfunction in branch circuit wiring, said Chief Deputy State Fire MarshalHarry R. Miller.

The total damage was estimated at $350,000, he said.

The Millsboro Volunteer Fire Co. responded to a building fire on Washington Street. Upon arrival, heavy smoke was showing from the second floor and attic of the funeral home, which was built in the late 1800s, according to the Millsboro Volunteer Fire Co. website. Crews worked for several hours to extinguish the fire, which had traveled throughout the balloon construction structure.

Millsboro was assisted by the Georgetown, Dagsboro, Gumboro, Frankford, and Indian River fire companies. The Roxana Fire Company also responded with its rehab unit.

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A weekend fire that heavily damaged a Sussex County funeral home was caused by an electrical malfunction, state fire officials said Wednesday.

The fire began at 1:25 p.m. Saturday at the Bennie Smith Funeral Home, a former residence built in the late 1800s in the 200 block of S. Washington St. in Millsboro.

Crews from the Millsboro Volunteer Fire Co. arrived to find heavy smoke showing from the second floor and attic, as the fire traveled throughout the structure.

Millsboro crews and six other fire companies worked for several hours to put out the blaze, Fire Chief Matthew Warrington said Wednesday.

The resident of an apartment in the three-story building escaped without injury, said Harry R. Miller, chief deputy state fire marshal.

Were just grateful that no one was injured, said Terrence Nichols, chief operations officer with Bennie Smith. Thats whats most important.

No human remains were damaged and no services were under way at the time of the fire, Miller and Nichols said. Damage was estimated at $350,000.

The funeral home management does not yet know whether it will be able to rebuild. At this point, were still talking with the insurance company, Nichols said.

The fire was caused by an electrical malfunction in branch-circuit wiring, where power comes out of the panel box, Miller said.

The house that burned was one of several locations for the business, which has its main office in Dover.

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Twin Falls, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KSVT-TV ) - An attic fire has displaced a family from their home at 144 Sidney Street off of Washington Street South. Twin Falls Fire Department Battalion Chief Ron Aguirre say they were called to the home around 3:30 pm Tuesday afternoon on the report that smoke was coming out of an attic. It took firefighters some time to find out what was causing the fire. Finally firefighters found some old knob and tube wiring that had short circuited. There is no other reason for the wiring failure other than age. Knob and Tube wiring was used in homes as late as the 1930s according to Wikipedia. The Battalion Chief said some ceiling had to be pulled down. Then the fire department removed all of the insulation in the attic. That's when they discovered what he calls heavy damage to the roof structure. There was also some water damage to the approximate 1900-square foot home.

The Battalion chief said that if you own a home with the old knob and tube wiring make sure you have a professional electrician perform any upgrades. He added for any home or business owner that if a breaker trips continually, to leave it off and call a professional to check out the problem.

Three fire engines and a command unit responded to the scene.

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