Posted on 10/12/2014 2:04:13 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Woman fights to take back house stolen in deed-fraud scam
By Amber Jamieson
It’s a case of grand theft house. A Manhattan woman claims an ex-con stole her family home in Queens by filing a phony deed with the city and moving in. Now Jennifer Merin is battling in court to remove the convicted armed robber, Darrell Beatty, 49, and his sons, Darrell Kash Beatty, 25, and DeShaun Beatty, 22, from the three-bedroom Tudor she says they snatched in February. “It just devastates me,” Merin, an online film critic, said as she looked at cherished family heirlooms — photos, a circa-1920 bed frame, vintage suitcases, classic television sets, a smashed 6-foot vase — piled like trash in the garage of the Laurelton home. Merin said her Russian and Ukrainian grandparents moved into the new row house on 141st Avenue in 1931 and raised her mother and her mother’s two siblings there.
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Time for a shotgun eviction. If she gets back her house, she’ll have to have an exterminator fumigate it from top to bottom, looks like.
Given the price of real estate and rents even in Queens I just have to wonder why the place sat idle long enough for this guy to even pull such a scam. Had it been occupied it would have been breaking and entering an occupied dwelling.
She was using it as storage, she must be able to afford it. But even if she wasn’t living in it, I would assume it would be no different from someone going on vacation and coming back and seeing all their possessions thrown out, their car gone and someone living there.
It’s an occupied dwelling. Do you think that breaking into a second home is somehow not a crime?
If it’s not anyone’s primary residence and no one is residing there then the level of criminality is not the same. Breaking and entering an occupied dwelling carries a more severe penalty than breaking and entering.
The problem is she had nobody watching it and wouldn’t have anyone check on it for months at a time. Huge mistake. These people moved in on February and she didn’t discover it until May. She should have sold it instead of keeping it as shrine.
That must vary by location. My second home was just burglarized and the police said that the charges are the same as if it were my primary residence. I was not in the home at the time of the burglary.
As ridiculous as it sounds, a neighbor knocked on the door of a friend of mine at 10:00 at night. She'd had a fight with her husband. My friend let her stay the night. Did you know that simple act of kindness justifies her claiming squatter's rights, per Washington state law, as a tenant? My friend could only file an eviction notice in court.
Breaking and entering is a crime, theft is a crime, regardless of whether or not anyone is living there at the time. Here, the penalty ratchets up if someone lives there, and I believe is additionally treated as intent of some nature if resident is actually at home at the time of the break-in.
Change the locks, remove her and her stuff then claim no knowledge whatsoever, she's nuts I tell you, keep her away from me, then file a restraining order.
Stealing is stealing.
“People think I’m kidding when I tell them New york city is the liberal capital of the country.”
It is and California is a close second place. A very close
second place. And the tards are moving here after fouling
their own nest. Not only stupid but very nasty people.
They move here and immediately start turning the place into
the dump they walked out on. Too stupid to realize they are
the problem.
Or, option B: Never give anyone else the opportunity to use that law. Once burned, twice shy.
They can hold you accountable for anything, though.
For some reason in this country both coasts, West and East are just completely off the charts leftist I don’t know why that is. Maybe the sea water causes massive brain damage.
I grew up in New York city and just moved out. The final straw being when they elected Bill De Blasio, a hardcore blatant commie and just in time as well as he’s burning that city to the ground.
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