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CALGARY — A two-year ordeal for an Alberta senior who said her home was claimed as an embassy by a self-proclaimed follower of the sovereign citizen movement is over.

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Police in Calgary swooped in at 2 a.m. local time Friday and arrested Andreas Pirelli, also known as Mario Antonacci, on several outstanding warrants issued by courts in Quebec.

Rebekah Caverhill, who rented the home to Pirelli in November 2011, cried tears of joy after hearing the news.

“I’m so grateful,” said Caverhill, in an interview with The Canadian Press from her home in Sylvan Lake, Alta.

“I don’t know what I’m walking into when I walk in there, but that’s nothing. Bricks and boards can be fixed but there are some things that are far more precious then bricks and boards — that’s the idea of freedom and standing up for what you think is right.”

Pirelli was already facing an eviction notice but the process wasn’t expected to occur until Saturday morning.