Cops: Unpaid rent led to boarder's death, landlord charged
By STEPHANIE FARR & REGINA MEDINA
Philadelphia Daily News
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Philadelphia - When Miguel Davilla got into an argument with a tenant at his unlicensed boarding home in Fairmount Saturday, he didn't put him out in the cold - he put him out cold - and then placed his dead body in the makeshift coffin he had built out of scrap wood in the home, according to police.
Davilla, 27, lived in the house on Croskey Street near Brown and was the landlord to five or six tenants, police said.
Among those tenants was Roben P. Woodson, 55, an aspiring actor who was late on his rent.
On Saturday, the back rent sparked an argument between Davilla and Woodson that ended wit