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

According to an order recently signed by Butler County Judge Timothy McCune, the owners of 201 American Ave. have four months to sell the property, and provide the DA’s office $5,000 from the proceeds.

If that happens, the DA’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.”

The DA’s office in March 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 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 also are Gilliland’s parents, have never been arrested or in trouble of any sort under state law prosecutors have the right to sue a property. That process was started in this case.

Goldinger said the money cited in the consent agreement would cover the Butler 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.