Police refused to remove woman from sober house after knife threat

Police refused to remove woman from sober house after knife threat

DeMalia’s House of Hope, a sober house in Plainfield, tried to remove a woman who allegedly threatened another patient with a knife. Responding officers declined to evict the woman, and now Director Andrew DeMalia is considering shutting down the operation. On August 4, a woman who was addicted to alcohol and crack/cocaine checked herself into DeMalia’s House of Hope, according to a Facebook post from DeMalia’s House of Hope. According to that F…