Residents in a Cobb County neighborhood say it's like living under siege because a woman has been tattling on her entire neighborhood with hundreds of calls to code enforcement.
Mary Ann Spinney showed Channel 2's Jim Strickland what got her in trouble with Cobb Code Enforcement. She pulled up near her back steps to unload groceries.
"What's wrong with that?" Strickland asked Spinney.
"You're not supposed to have a car on the grass," Spinney said.
The same thing happened with Debroah Clay, too, and landed her a fine near $300.
Cobb County told Strickland in the past four years they've received 350 code enforcement complaints about homes in the tiny subdivision in Kennesaw.
The county acknowledges it, but Strickland discovered one woman is behind virtually every one.
Her name is Deborah Serafin. The county admits from her address, code enforcement has gotten calls at 3 a.m. to report neighbors with any manner of slight infraction.
"She's ruining the neighborhood," said neighbor A.J. Porter.
And from what Strickland could see, Serafin is sucking up resources.
She called the cops on Strickland and his photographer. Within moments, three patrol cars showed up to tell her they had every right to be there.
"Code enforcement's not going to do anything. They can't enforce parking on the roadway ma'am," the officer told Serafin.
Most of the neighbors Strickland spoke with live blocks away, but say Serafin has reported on them anyway.
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