Navy veteran asks Channel 13 for help

Have you ever felt hopeless and not sure how to move forward?

That’s how 81-year-old Michael Wilson feels about what he describes as a “neighbor’s nightmare.”

Wilson is a Marine and served in the Vietnam War.

“I have sailed all over the Pacific, to Okinawa, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam and Formosa. You name a rock in the Pacific and I was on it,” Wilson said.

Today he lives on Montego Drive, just east of Boulder Highway, and he faces a different kind of battlefield.

“I just wish it would end,” Wilson said.

Last month, Wilson showed me surveillance camera footage of a man walking through his front gate, which was unlocked.

WATCH: Michael Wilson Shows Me Surveillance Camera Footage

Surveillance video of man entering property

The video shows the man entering and leaving Wilson’s house twice.

He then sits on several chairs on Wilson’s porch and smokes a cigarette.

After that, he takes a brief tour of the property before leaving.

All of this happened while Wilson’s daughter was in another room of the house.

When the man came in, I asked him if he feared for his daughter’s safety.

” Enormously. Yes. I mean, he could have, well, I hate to think what he could have done,” Wilson said.

He thinks the man was coming from his next door neighbor’s house.

“I didn’t say he lived there. I say I saw him there,” Wilson said.

Over the past year, Wilson, with his four outdoor surveillance cameras, has documented fires, large tents, dumps and, he says, homeless people constantly coming and going.

“Seven to 12 people live there,” Wilson said.

Michael Wilson

He said the problem started five years ago but got worse last year.

Wilson claims the house next door is a rental property and Wilson attempted to appeal to the tenant. However, the problem persisted, even after he spoke to the owner about it.

So he called the police to file a report, then contacted law enforcement and Channel 13 for help.

Clark County said law enforcement was investigating the property. Wilson said they removed six truckloads of trash but saw no further improvement and many visitors were still there.

Michael Wilson

Now there is new construction on the property.

“Bedrooms, I call them, 10 by 10 bedrooms on the porch,” Wilson said.

I checked with the registered owner of the house, who is Richard Sedin. I exchanged brief texts with a woman who identified herself as his wife.

The woman claims the couple lives in the house and has not rented their property. She also denied that homeless people live there.

She blamed Wilson, saying her neighbor is “getting old” and “always complaining.”

I tried to communicate with the Sedins again through text messages and calls, but got no response.

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I also spoke with two people at home. They denied all claims made by Wilson and surrounding neighbors. They claimed the outdoor tents were for storage and told me only four people lived there.

As for Wilson, he’s trying to figure out what to do now.

“Everything described would fall under nuisance law,” said Matt Hoffman, partner and owner of Battleborn Injury Lawyers.

Hoffman only had the specific details of the situation that I gave him, but he told me the next step would be to pursue legal recourse.

“To combat this, you would file a complaint with the court to get some sort of preliminary injunction,” Hoffman explained. “Basically the court has ruled that you must stop, ordering the owner to prevent this from happening.”

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Wilson told me he had sought legal help and hoped he could put an end to this conflict.

Several of Wilson’s neighbors told me they agreed the property was a problem for them, too. To protect their homes, they are considering surveillance cameras and perimeter gates.