Homeowner In Foreclosure Charged For Trashing House Days Before Public Auction

In Athens, Georgia, the Athens Banner-Herald reports:

• The former Athens businessman at the center of a massive mortgage fraud investigation was arrested Wednesday for allegedly trashing his house in west Athens just days before the bank was to auction it off. Brian Christopher Dupree, 36, was arrested in Athens-Clarke Magistrate Court after a warrant hearing and soon was released on a $4,000 bond. Dupree was charged with three misdemeanor counts of endangering a "security interest" for removing appliances, cabinets, lighting fixtures, door knobs and other items with an estimated value of more than $25,000 from a foreclosed house on Meadowview Road. The Bank of Georgia, which foreclosed on Dupree's house, held a security interest in the stolen items, according to the arrest warrant application.

Dupree is currently also facing more serious mortgage fraud charges in an earlier, unrelated arrest in which he and nearly two dozen others were charged in an alleged $7 million mortgage fraud scheme.

For more, see Fraud suspect arrested (Damage to house).

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