This story only gets better…
It appears that ywo Loan Modification Scam victims took their anger out on the perpertraitors…now they are facing Life in Prison!
It appears that these two Sothern California homeowners who had hired “Loan Mod Experts” felt that since nothing was happening with their modification that they would simply get their money back or beat it out of them.
Well that back fired and the 2 home owners along with 3 assailants are facing:
- False imprisonment
- Robbery
- Extortion
- Yada,Yada, Yada
Lesson Learned…
“Vengence is Mine…Sayeth the Lord”
As seen in Mortgage Ledger:
“One California couple facing foreclosure decided to violently take their desperation and frustration out on the very people they hired to help them save their home.
Daniel Weston and Mary Ann Parmelee, both 52, and three other people are charged with torturing two loan-modification agents they hired to help them try to save their home, authorities said.
The two are accused of luring their two victims, who they suspected of fraud, to an office where they tied the men up, held them against their wills for hours and beat them, according to a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney.
According to court documents, the five assailants, who have all since been arrested, set out to “cause cruel and extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion and for a sadistic purpose, inflict great bodily injury.”
Both victims were treated at a local hospital and have now been released.
Weston and Parmelee own a home in La Canada-Flintridge, a suburb outside of Los Angeles, that fell into foreclosure.
The pair then allegedly sought loan modification assistance from the victims but eventually came to believe that nothing was being done in their favor and then requested their money back, as was written in a statement from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Weston, Parmelee and the three other defendants were each charged with two counts of torture, two counts of false imprisonment by violence and two counts of second-degree robbery, according to a criminal complaint filed against them.
Weston and another defendant are accused of carrying out the beatings while their three co-defendants watched, prosecutors said.
Each count of felony torture, defined as inflicting “great bodily injury” for the purpose of “revenge, extortion, persuasion and for a sadistic purpose,” carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
The case became publicly known as Los Angeles officials and community groups began a national public-awareness effort urging homeowners to beware of bogus loan-modification programs and to report suspicious activity to authorities.”
