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Two former employees of the Department of Building in Mount Vernon have not guilty of being accused of being tried to receive five properties in the city with fraudulent deeds.
Charlene Humphreys and Damon Davis were charged on Friday, April 25, for counterfeiting and counterfeiting for annual reports for an indictment at the West Chestian County Court.
The couple was arrested in December 2024 for four properties, one in each in the Summit Avenue, the Madison Street, the East Fifth Street and the Fiftenth Avenue. Humphreys had worked for the city between June 2022 and September 2023. Davis ended in the construction department a few days after his arrest after three years.
In the indictment, the indictment in connection with the alleged transfer of a house in the Forster Avenue was added.
In the complaint of the crimes submitted at the time of the arrest, the efforts of the Humphreys were detailed to set up an account with the land department of the West Chestian County Clerk, using their second first name and the maiden name of the mother and then tax forms and deeds.
In two cases she tried to do houses in the 32 Fifetenth Ave. And 484 East Fifth St.
Davis is a notary public that claimed to observe the signature of the home owner who confirms the transfer of ownership, including cases in which the owners had passed away.
In three cases, the new certificate was not recorded by the district clerk. But the new deeds were recorded in two – the houses in the Madison Street and the Summit Avenue.
A property transferred by the document to the company in possession of Mount Vernon COP
In the case of the 352 Summit Ave. The certificate transferred ownership to the five-star JJ Estates, a company of Patrick Jean-Jerome, a police engraver of Mount Vernon, the President of the City Police Union.
The certificate that owned property was notarized by Davis and the initials of Jean-Jerome as representatives of the scholarship holder.
The owner of ownership, which was exposed to enforcements, informed the investigators that he had never signed this document for crimes according to the complaint. County Land Records show that the property was sold to the mortgage company last year during a foreclosure auction.
In a telephone interview on Sunday evening, Jean-Jerome said that his company had never taken the property, but he refused to comment on further, citing on the ongoing criminal proceedings.
Humphreys and Davis are charged with a second degree for falsification allegations of the first degree, the second degree, the criminal possession of a fake instrument and the first degree in the first degree. Humphreys is also charged with the second degree surveyed, and Davis is charged with notary fraud.
The charges of great theft, fake and fake instruments are the most serious and have maximum prison terms of seven years.