{"id":7102,"date":"2025-12-27T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/?p=7102"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T14:36:05","slug":"another-brooklyn-deed-theft-isnt-this-a-felony-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/another-brooklyn-deed-theft-isnt-this-a-felony-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Brooklyn Deed Theft? Isn\u2019t This a Felony Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1450\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/another-brooklyn-deed-theft.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/another-brooklyn-deed-theft.webp 1450w, https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/another-brooklyn-deed-theft-300x145.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/another-brooklyn-deed-theft-1024x496.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/another-brooklyn-deed-theft-768x372.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carmella Charrington of Brooklyn has a disturbing story to tell. And New York City\u2019s <em>News 12<\/em> reporters listened. In a state where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/its-a-crime-deed-theft-crackdown-gets-serious\/#:~:text=Effective%20July%202024%3A%20Deed%20Theft%20Is%20a%20Crime\">deed theft is now named as grand larceny<\/a> under the criminal law, some self-declared \u201cnew homeowner\u201d broke into her home earlier this month. Then the stranger tried to evict Charrington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The office of Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez responded to the news reporters. The DA office stated that its Real Estate Fraud Unit has convicted 30+ deed manipulators since 2017. These are sophisticated white-collar criminals, including disbarred lawyers. The office says it has dealt with more than 70 stolen deeds, jailed perpetrators, and recovered homes for the rightful owners when legally possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OK. But hundreds of New York City deeds are hijacked every year. From 2014 to 2023, says the New York City Sheriff\u2019s Office, the city racked up about 3,500 deed theft reports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cEviction Crime Syndicate Operating Throughout Brooklyn\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eviction-crime-syndicate.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eviction-crime-syndicate.webp 456w, https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eviction-crime-syndicate-277x300.webp 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Evangeline Byars, who co-facilitates The People\u2019s Coalition to Stop Deed Theft, told <em>Our Time Press<\/em> that deed theft is connected to \u201can eviction crime syndicate operating throughout Brooklyn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operators pick on older people, Byars explains, with paid-off homes. The typical target, says Byars, is a retired bus driver or police officer. \u201c[S]ome fraudster slaps a note on you from a fraudulent bank saying that you owe them $822,000, and they are foreclosing on you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the tactics they use is looking up heirs when someone has died. They zero in on descendants and ask them to sign over whatever legal rights to the home they might have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once they get their hands on a partial share, the manipulators convince courts to assign them the properties. Then they\u2019re at the door, saying the home belongs to their LLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Justice? Or Just Us?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Our Time Press<\/em> said Byars reported a wealth of information on how New York City deed scammers operate. And how these scammers are treated as credible people by city authorities, including judges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There are young adults holding scores of deeds, and grabbing still more from elderly and financially struggling people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There are LLC owners going into courts daily to evict homeowners, and the courts are upholding the evictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Banks are enabling \u201cpurchaser to purchaser fraud\u201d in which a deed holder\u2019s mortgage is assigned to and then controlled by another party.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cFraud of service\u201d can send a struggling homeowner into an eviction. It happens when the required foreclosure notice is either never sent, or the envelope containing the notice is purposefully misaddressed. Yet on the court\u2019s record, the deed holder got served the notice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These tactics are designed to cause a default, so the manipulators can take the targeted deed and evict the occupants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Type of Treachery That Knows No Bottom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, it\u2019s a supposed rescuer who orchestrates the evictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the case of Rachel C., who lost the deed to a multi-unit Brooklyn home she bought with her father more than 25 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a hard breakup and the financial fallout that ensued, Rachel fell several months behind on mortgage payments. She sought foreclosure rescue assistance from a certain Francklin Etienne. A disbarred attorney had persuaded Rachel to put the deed in Etienne\u2019s name. Only temporary, they assured Rachel. They would get the mortgage straightened out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rachel wound up sending $25K worth of payments to Etienne over the better part of a year. Eventually, she wanted out of the arrangement. She stopped sending money. But will she ever get the deed to her property back?&nbsp; Wooley and Etienne are currently defendants in Rachel\u2019s lawsuit in Brooklyn\u2019s Supreme Court. As of 2025, Rachel has been struggling for 15 years to recover her deed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Community Fights Back<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When real estate broker Florence Lichmore-Smith challenged the presence of a construction team inside her own Brooklyn home, the scene went viral. At first, police wouldn\u2019t let her in. Carmella Charrington was also witnessed defending her family home. Others are watching. Some are joining the resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Charrington educates them on the white-collar schemes to hoard and flip Brooklyn homes. If they aren\u2019t aware, other families may fall prey to the same tactics, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deed theft victims rallied together in November, when disbarred Brooklyn lawyer Sanford Solny received a prison term for taking a slew of Brooklyn deeds, mainly from <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynda.org\/2025\/11\/12\/disbarred-attorney-sentenced-to-up-to-seven-years-in-prison-for-stealing-deeds-of-11-brooklyn-properties-in-decade-long-fraudulent-scheme\/#:~:text=Brooklyn%20District%20Attorney%20Eric%20Gonzalez,to%20seven%20years%20in%20prison.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black \u201chomeowners in financial distress<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, an organized presence has hit the streets to protect people and their deeds: the rapid response unit of The People\u2019s Coalition to Stop Deed Theft. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Parallel to Domestic Violence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials have set up deed theft prevention workshops. And state legislator Stefani Zinerman told <em>Our Time Press<\/em> about forthcoming plans for a statewide system to confront shady property transfers. This includes the Protect Our Homes Act, which would create deed fraud alerts for the counties, and strengthen fraud detection. As for city leadership, a spokesperson for mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani told the publication that the incoming mayor will create an Office of Deed Theft Prevention to derail these schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deed theft awareness and prevention is one thing, organizers say. But they\u2019re calling for intervention and enforcement of victims\u2019 rights. The People\u2019s Coalition to Stop Deed Theft is now working with the DA\u2019s Deed Theft and Mortgage Fraud Taskforce, designed to protect victims, much like the Domestic Violence Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parallels to domestic violence are striking. Carmella Charrington\u2019s family reports feeling terrified earlier this year when people broke into their home even as New York City police officers watched from the curb. The LLC owners told the police the home belonged to them. So the police did not intervene, although Carmella and her father, Allman Charrington, could be heard screaming in the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As in some domestic violence situations, it appears that the courts have failed this family. The elder Charrington has a court-appointed conservator, who was allegedly part of the fraudulent transfer. Carmella told the press that her father\u2019s conservator and a group of others signed off on the $1.4 million sale transaction of the home in January 2024. They didn\u2019t have to go to the probate court for permission to sell. And yet they are the named sellers on the recorded deed transfer to their LLC, which is owned by a threesome of infamous home flippers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, New York\u2019s work to deactivate its deed manipulators still has a long way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Yorkers targeted by deed scams can contact the state\u2019s Attorney General\u2019s office at 800-771-7755 or <a href=\"mailto:deedtheft@ag.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deedtheft@ag.ny.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-accent-5-background-color has-background has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p><strong>Supporting References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nayaba Arinde for <em>Our Time Press<\/em> (Brooklyn, New York): <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtimepress.com\/a-felony-but-deed-thievery-mortgage-fraud-and-illegal-evictions-are-still-big-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Felony, but Deed Thievery, Mortgage Fraud, and Illegal Evictions Are Still Big Business<\/a> (Dec. 19, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim Harfmann for <em>News 12 Brooklyn<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/bed-stuy-woman-claims-shes-a-victim-of-deed-theft-facing-eviction-from-new-homeowner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bed-Stuy Woman Claims She\u2019s a Victim of Deed Theft, Facing Eviction From \u201cNew Homeowner<\/a>\u201d (Dec. 4, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabriele Holtermann for <em>BrooklynPaper.com<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/bk-lawmakers-rally-combat-deed-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Immoral and Deceptive\u201d \u2013 Brooklyn Lawmakers Call for City Council to Invest $5M to Combat Deed Theft<\/a> (May 21, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Juanita Carrillo for <em>AmsterdamNews.com<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2024\/08\/22\/deed-thft-cases-threaten-to-deplete-nys-black-wealth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deed Theft Cases Threaten to Deplete New York\u2019s Black Generational Wealth<\/a> (Aug. 22, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as linked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read more on the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/category\/deed-fraud\/\">deed fraud<\/a> here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image credits: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/city-building-with-fire-escape-stairs-4451951\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vlada Karpovich<\/a> via Pexels\/Canva; and <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Brooklyn_neighborhoods_map.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter Fitzgerald<\/a> via OpenStreet Map, licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmella Charrington of Brooklyn has a disturbing story to tell. And New York City\u2019s News 12 reporters listened. In a state where deed theft is now named as grand larceny under the criminal law, some self-declared \u201cnew homeowner\u201d broke into her home earlier this month. Then the stranger tried to evict Charrington. 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