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Russian spies’ New Jersey home heading up for sale

Russian spies' New Jersey home heading up for sale | iNFOnews.ca
This July 19, 2017 photo shows the house at 31 Marquette St. in Montclair, N.J., that has been vacant since the FBI arrested a family of undercover Russian spies living there. An investor is planning to renovate and then try to sell the home. Vladimir and Lydia Guryev lived here under the names Richard and Cynthia Murphy before they were arrested in 2010 along with eight other spies accused of leading double lives, complete with false passports, secret code words, fake names, invisible ink and encrypted radio. (Avalon Zoppo/NJ Advance Media via AP)

MONTCLAIR, N.J. – A New Jersey home that has been vacant since the FBI arrested a family of undercover Russian spies living there is heading up for sale.

Vladimir and Lydia Guryev lived in the home in Montclair under the names Richard and Cynthia Murphy before they were arrested in 2010.

The parents of two young daughters had pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. They were deported to Russia.

Their story partially inspired the FX drama “The Americans,” about two undercover Russian spies that live in the U.S. with two young children.

NJ.com reports (http://bit.ly/2uLLG54 ) that investor Jeremy MacDonald is planning to renovate and then try to sell the home. He says he hopes it will sell for about $700,000.

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Information from: NJ Advance Media.

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