Ex-Cop Convicted of Trashing French Valley Home

A former San Diego Police officer was convicted today of trashing his house after a bank foreclosed on it.

A jury convicted Robert Conrad Acosta, 40, of stealing fixtures and destroying property. His wife, Monique Acosta, was found guilty on Friday of the same charges at the in French Valley.

An alternate juror stepped in for an absentee, and they began deliberating at 9:35 a.m. They reached a verdict barely an hour later at 10:40 a.m., according to court records.

The couple faces four years and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 20.

They were evicted from their home on Via Laguna in French Valley in 2010. After negotiating with their bank to keep the house, the couple offered a "cash-for-keys" deal; they would leave the home in good condition if the bank paid $10,000. The bank declined.

The damage
The couple went on a rampage in the house, ripping out fixtures, such as lights, countertops, drawers, cabinet doors, rod iron railings and landscaping.

When the bank got the property, various scribbles and childish drawings of flowers and mermaids were spray painted on the walls. Stone facing was ripped off walls inside and out and left in piles. Black hair dye was scrubbed into grout. Trees were cut at the stump and found floating in the pool, and epoxy was dumped at the bottom. Lines to the heater were cut, and air conditioning units were missing.

The couple took only what they believed belonged to them, . The Acostas had a very short time to vacate the house, which explains the huge mess, he told the jury.

the couple was trying to get revenge on the bank for turning down its deal.