The San Francisco Office of the District Attorney released this photo of Kip Macy, and Nicole Macy. The couple that prosecutors dubbed the "landlords from hell" have pleaded guilty to four felonies.
The San Francisco Office of the District Attorney released this photo of Kip Macy, and Nicole Macy. The couple that prosecutors dubbed the "landlords from hell" have pleaded guilty to four felonies. San Francisco Office of the Di

A couple from California has received a new title from authorities "landlords from hell," and that they are. The terrible landlords are now headed for four years in jails due to terrorizing their tenants.

The husband and wife landlords were menacing to their tenants, with actions ranging from cutting holes in the floor of one victim's living room with a power saw while he was inside the apartment to soaking victims' beds, clothes and electronics with ammonia, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.

The actions of landlords are so bizarre that District Attorney; George Gascon feels like they must have been conjured from a bad horror movie, unfortunately these "landlords from hell" are real. "The actions of these defendants are so outlandish and brazen that it sounds like the plot line of a horror movie," Gascon said in a statement. "This case shows you you cannot flee this country and avoid the consequences of your actions. These defendants will be held fully accountable for their crimes."

The defendants in the case have been identified as Kip Macy, 38, and his wife, Nicole Macy, 37. The "landlords from hell" owned an apartment in San Francisco. The building is located in the up-and-coming South of Market area, due to this the landlords wanted to evict their tenants. After the tenants were evicted, the defendants planned to renovate the apartments and sell them individually, according to authorities.

For their "insane" actions the couple pleaded guilty to two felony counts of residential burglary, one felony count of stalking and one felony count of attempted grand theft.

The laundry list of incidents is long showing the true scope of these insane "landlords from hell." Nicole Macy sent fraudulent emails to the attorney of one of their tenants with whom they were involved in a civil case, the DA said. She pretended to be the victim (her tenant) and fired the lawyer. Still pretending to be the same tenant, Nicole sent emails to her own attorney threatened to "kidnap and dismember the attorney's children," the DA's office said.

Nearly impossible to believe but the incidents actually get worse. The landlords used a power saw to cut a hole through a victim's living room floor while he was in the apartment! But the use of the power saw did not stop there, the landlords intentionally attempted to make the building unsafe, putting their tenants in severe danger.

"The defendants also cut multiple sections out of the joists below the victim's floors, in an apparent attempt to make the floor collapse while people were standing on it," the DA's office wrote in a news release. "Before cutting the joists, Nicole Macy had asked a Department of Building Inspector which beam she would need to cut to make the building structurally unsound in order to red tag the building and order all tenants out."

The brazen actions of this couple continues, they changed locks, cut phone lines, shut off utilities, and even went so far as to remove victims belongings from their apartment and destroy them.

Maybe even more shocking then this insane case is when it occurred, the "landlords from hell" were charged with felonies in April of 2008, these events listed above took place from September 2005 to December 2007. After they were charge, the couple posted bail and ran away to Italy, according to authorities. But the "landlords from hell" were not free for that long, the couple was taken into custody in Italy in May 2012 and extradited back to the U.S. on May 17, 2013, when bail was set at $2 million for each of them.

The couple then plead guilty to four felony counts on Tuesday and are will begin their four years and four months sentence in state prison on August 22.

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