The wife of a Manatee County sheriff's deputy has been accused of moving her family into a Riverview house without the owner's permission.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said Jeanella Pollock, 51, was living with her husband, Manatee deputy Leon Pollack, and teenage children in a house on Potomac Circle in Riverview that had been vacant. Authorities said Pollock broke into the house, moved her family in and changed the locks.

Jeanella Pollack was arrested Thursday and charged with burglary and grand theft.

Leon Pollack was not charged, but the Manatee sheriff's office has placed him on administrative leave without pay pending the results of an internal investigation, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Jeanella Pollack filed an adverse possession form with the Hillsborough Property Appraiser's Office. Florida law allows people to ask a judge to declare abandoned property theirs if they fix it up and occupy it for seven years while paying the taxes. But that doesn't make it legal to move into the home.

"You're still trespassing," said Will Shepherd, general council for the Hillsborough County Property's Appraiser's Office.

"All that adverse possession does is say, if no one comes after you for trespassing or breaking and entering and in seven years, you might have an opportunity to acquire this property."

The homeowner, Sharon Bond, was notified about Pollock's filing. 

"There was a phone number on the forms, so I called the number and the woman answered and she said, 'I broke into your house and I want to buy it.' I said, 'It's not for sale. You have to get out'," Bond said.

Bond said she was forced to move out temporarily because of health and money problems, but she plans to return.

Jeanella Pollack had no legal authority to assume the home, the Hillsborough sheriff's office said.

"Foreclosures, vacant homes, homes that are for sale, seasonal residents that are out of town, you're on vacation, you're out to dinner, what's next?" HCSO spokesman Larry McKinnon said. "I mean, where does the line stop? The fact remains, if it's not your house, stay out of it."

McKinnon said detectives are still investigating to see if anyone else will be charged.

Bay News 9 tried to contact Jeanella Pollock at her current residence. No one came to the door.

According to the Bradenton Herald, Leon Pollack was honored in 2007 for adopting eight foster children.