Another Dead Homeowner The Target In Alleged Long Island Deed Theft

In Nassau County, New York, Newsday reports:

• A West Hempstead woman accused of stealing a house from a dead person was ordered held on $100,000 bond or $50,000 cash bail Friday after her arraignment on grand larceny charges, police said. A Roosevelt man also was charged in connection with the incident, but his court status was not immediately available.

• Barbara Hoist, 49, of 521 Champlain Ave., forged the deed to a single-family home on Underhill Avenue in Roosevelt and transferred ownership from the deceased owner to herself, Nassau police said. Hoist forged the deed to the Roosevelt house the day after Christmas in 2006 and then a few weeks later sold that house for $65,000 to the Roosevelt man, police said.

• That buyer, Ernest Pope, 48, of Roosevelt, resold the house in May 2007 for $190,000, police said. Pope, of 45 Jefferson Ave., was scheduled for arraignment Friday on a charge of grand larceny. Both face additional charges of falsifying business records, forgery and identity theft.

For more, see Two charged after sales of dead owner's house.

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