New Mexico Couple Charged With Swiping Seven Properties Using Forged Deeds, Fraudulent Notarizations

In Valencia County, New Mexico, The News Bulletin reports:

• A former employee of the Valencia County treasurer's department and her husband have been arrested and charged with a slew of crimes involving felony fraud and forgery involving ownership of land in the county. On April 30, Gladys Vigil, a former clerk in the treasurer's office, and her husband, Victor Paul Vigil, were arrested on a criminal complaint filed in magistrate court by state police. Police allege the Vigils deeded property over to a company they owned without the knowledge of the current property owners. The initial investigation cites seven such properties and alleged false deeds.(1)

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• [County Treasurer Dorothy] Lovato said all of the property was vacant, with no buildings. The criminal complaint charges that most of the property deed transfers were notarized by Gladys Vigil and signed by a Paul Vigil on behalf of Vigil Enterprises.

For more, see Ex-county employee charged with forgery (Complaint alleges woman, husband deeded property without owners' knowledge).

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(1) The investigation was triggered by a phone call from a woman who had not received a property tax bill for her deceased father's land and needed the information to complete the arrangements of his estate. Reportedly, the investigation revealed that the fraudulent deed transfer was puportedly executed by the father in 2006. Unbeknowst to the perpetrators, however, he died in 2005. DeedZetaTheft