Our soldiers are sacrificing a lot so we can all live our normal lives safe and sound. The smallest thing that we can do is to make sure that when they return from active duty, they have homes to settle into, right?

Army Specialist Michael Sharkey from New Port Richey, Florida, said that illegal tenants took over his house while he was deployed in Hawaii for two years, and when it’s time to move back into his home with his lovely wife, the couple was shocked to know that two ex-cons had broken into their residence, changed the locks and even refused to leave, according to The Blaze.

Absurdly, Sharkey was also told that legally there was very little he could actually do. The police explained that they couldn’t forcibly evict Julio Ortiz and Fatima Cardosa, since they had established residency during the period in which Sharkey and his wife were in Hawaii. The matter would have to be settled in a civil court.

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Julio Ortiz claimed that he had a verbal agreement with Sharkey’s friend who was looking after the Florida home while the soldier was in Hawaii. Said agreement supposedly stipulated that Ortiz and Cardosa could live for free so long as they took on responsibility for any repairs on the home. Michael and his friend, however, fervidly disputed this outlandish claim of these ex-cons.

In an interview, Sharkey told WFLA:

“The people that are in this house cannot produce any documentation, lease, agreement, anything that they belong in that house. They are criminals. I am serving my country, and they have more rights to my home than I do.”

With the authorities unable to help the soldier, he had to turn to other routes for assistance. Luckily, a group of local bikers caught wind of the story and decided that he was a plight they simply couldn’t ignore. The thought that a pair of lowlife squatters could lay claim to the property of a serving U.S. soldier with impunity was beyond reason, so they devised the perfect plan.

All told, Ortiz had spent a combined 12 years in prison in New Jersey for such crimes as robbery, carjacking, and selling drugs on school property. His criminal record mattered very little, however, when words got out that he had taken over Sharkey’s house, a group of military veteran bikers announced that they would be paying a visit to the home to “peacefully make the squatters uncomfortable.”

The ex-cons at that point decided it would be in their best interests to leave the property, running with their tails between their legs when they heard the bikers were coming.

There is nothing more enraging than a story about a soldier getting the shaft when he’s been out risking his life for our country. They deserve nothing but the best.

Sharkey spent two years away from home safeguarding our freedom and liberties just so these criminal free-loaders could take over his home. Fortunately, these no-nonsense bikers took it upon themselves to make matters right.

Sources: taphaps , theblaze , newsner, Youtube/HLN , wfla