The city home targeted by the Butler County District Attorney for seizure due to ongoing drug activity there appears to have a different resolution.

According to an order recently signed by county Judge Timothy McCune, the owners of 201 American Ave. have four months to sell that property, and provide the district attorney's office $5,000 from the proceeds.

If that happens, the district attorney's office will walk away from the issue.

“We thought this was the right thing to do considering who these people are,” explained District Attorney Richard Goldinger. “They're good people. Extremely remorseful ... victims of their son's actions.”

In March Goldinger deemed the two-story house “derivative contraband” of the city's drug trade, and filed court papers to seize it.

The home in recent months has had a growing number of complaints, visits from drug investigators and arrests of the tenant, 44-year-old Gregory A. Gilliland.

Although the property's owners, who are Gilliland's parents, have never been arrested or in trouble of any sort, prosecutors have the right to sue a property under state law. That process was started in this case.

Marlene Gilliland of Oakland Township declined to comment Tuesday about this development in the case.

In previous interviews with the Butler Eagle, she and her husband, Gary, alleged they had no knowledge that their son was dealing drugs in the house they bought in 2013 for $20,000.

Goldinger said the $5,000 cited in the consent agreement would cover the county Drug Task Force's expenses in investigating alleged drug activities at the property.

“This way we would come out even and they would have a chance to sell the property and not have a total loss,” Goldinger said.

The owners in court indicated they already “have found a prospective purchaser of the ... property,” according to the court order.

Goldinger said if Gillilands fail to sell the property within the agreed time, the initial seizure proceeding would resume as though this agreement was never made.