Mix-Up Over American Indian Artifacts At Home In Foreclosure Results In Alleged Civil Rights Violations, False Imprisonment Suit Against Cops, Others

In Merced, California, the Merced Sun Star reports:

• A Burbank couple is suing the city of Merced, three police officers, an area real estate company and a real estate agent, alleging civil rights violations, false imprisonment and the infliction of emotional distress, among other claims. In the lawsuit filed Feb. 26, Fred Mosbey III and his wife, Tracy Hardy-Mosbey, claim the officers and a representative of real estate company London Properties prevented the couple from removing American Indian artifacts from a home previously owned by Tracy Hardy-Mosbey's mother.

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• The home was under the threat of foreclosure in 2008. Mosbey said he thought he was working with his mortgage company to stop the foreclosure when his brother-in-law, Antonio Rushing, passed by the house and saw eviction papers stuck on the door. "We had no intentions of losing the house and no intentions of stuff happening like it did happen," Mosbey said.

For more, see Couple files suit after scuffle at distressed home (Retrieval of American Indian artifacts at center of action).