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[The Straight Story]

86-year-old woman fighting eviction


Officials said Belle Perry violated her lease because her son sold drugs on the property.

The Bucks County Housing Authority has filed paperwork to evict an 86-year-old woman from her federally subsidized home in Venice Ashby because officials say her son sold drugs on the property, among other lease violations.

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Perry denied the allegations. "I don't allow anybody to smoke nothing in my house," she said Friday.

Police records of the Aug. 20 drug arrest state that her son, Sylvester Perry, sold a small amount of drugs to another man on the 1600 block of Foster Avenue Circle. Belle Perry lives in that block. Sylvester Perry is in prison on $40,000 bail awaiting an October hearing on those charges.

On Aug. 26, the housing authority filed a complaint seeking Belle Perry's eviction. She received the documents in the mail Aug. 27 and they stated that an eviction hearing would be held Sept. 1, her daughter Bobbie Perry said.

When the family went to court Tuesday, they said they asked for a continuance, but the request was denied. District Judge Wallace Bateman ruled that the home would be sealed Friday at noon, according to court records.

Perry's eight children and about 80 grandchildren gathered at her home Friday to try to prevent the eviction, but officials didn't show up and no attempt was made to evict her. Housing authority Executive Director Don Grondahl declined to comment on the case and Venice Ashby site manager Darla Moody wasn't at work Friday.

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