Valley couple indicted, accused of selling a home they were squatting in – ABC15 Arizona

Valley couple indicted, accused of selling a home they were squatting in  ABC15 Arizona

When looking over the home she owns in Phoenix, D’Andrea Turner can’t help but get sentimental.“This is home. It will always be home,” Turner told ABC15. “I raised my babies here.”D’Andrea lived in this home for years with her now ex-husband, Keith. D’Andrea has since moved out, and Keith is a long-haul trucker, which left the home vacant for a period of time.But in January, they learned their home had been sold with the title documents even published on the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office website.“That is not my name, and that’s not my signature,” Turner said. “How does this happen? At what point that someone didn’t do their job?”Investigators say 51-year-old Aaron Polmanteer and 37-year-old Lledera Hollen forced entry and moved into the vacant home.

The pair then “assumed the identity” of the Turners after gaining access to documents inside the home and forging other documents, impersonating the Turners.“The property did have documents in it of the true homeowners, and they assumed the identity of the homeowners and turned around and produced fraudulent identification,” said James Carrieres, who investigates document fraud for the Phoenix Police Department.“Squatters stole my house,” D’Andrea said. “They actually moved in, posed as me, and sold my house.”Polmanteer and Hollen then contacted a third-party real estate contractor who marketed the home without an agent, primarily to