Highland Park seized their building; the price to get it back was 2 new police cars

"It was a shakedown with a badge and a lawyer," said an attorney for the building's owners.

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the city of highland park sees their property without accusing them of a crime and more than 500 days later a local husband and wife say their building is still being held hostage but did the city abuse its power and engage in policing for profit tonight 7 investigator ross jones is revealing what the city wanted to make it all go away it's christmas eve 2020 you're looking at surveillance video outside of a building on hamilton avenue in highland park we got a call from someone there's a police knocking to the door justina kosebull and her husband matt owned the building that was once a church they bought it after it closed fixed it up and used it to grow medical marijuana the couple says they secured these 13 caregiver licenses giving them permission to grow in excess of 150 plants but on this day the day before christmas highland park's mayor was making an unannounced visit they were doing the fire inspection they said they were doing a fire inspection on