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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – A South Florida senior citizen is fighting to get back property that was stolen out from under her and re-sold.
That property has been in her family for more than 100 years.
It was stolen with a forged deed.
Because of safety concerns with COVID-19, it’s become standard practice to not have to show up to offices and sign documents, but instead have notarized materials delivered for processing.
It’s unclear what happened in this specific case, but police are moving quick.
Miami police detectives from the Economics Crime Bureau were spotted Wednesday at the Aventura title company that prepared the bogus deed which left 86-year old Shirley Gibson without the precious piece of property that’s been in her family for more than a century.
“Someone had forged my name and gone to the tax collector to pay my taxes,” Gibson said. She is adamant that she neither agreed to sell nor signed such a deal.
A second property she owns in the same neighborhood is also fraudulently listed online for sale.
“Someone is targeting me,” she said.
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