Share this or un-friend me, REALLY. According to a recent report in the Salem News by reporter Tim King, a U.S. Navy veteran and his wife, of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, have had quite a rough time of late. It all started almost three years ago when the family, Navy Veteran Ted Visner and his wife Kathy Smith, of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, fell for an apparent real estate scam by a local sheriff’s department employee. Visner says they bought their former home on a land contract, only to learn seven months later, that the seller, Isabella County Sheriff’s Dept. employee Shelly Sweet, was not making monthly payments on the house. A bank foreclosed on the property, all unbeknownst to the Visner/Smith family who ended up being the ones to suffer from the foreclosure. Visner, who builds custom homes for a living, said, “Although we were paying Sweet every month on the purchase of the property, she had not been paying the underlying mortgage and the home fell into foreclosure. On a weekend Sweet knew that we would be out of town, she offered the contents of our home to her friends and coworkers at the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department, claiming we had abandoned the home. Many took her up on her free offer deal and took over $55,000 dollars worth of our personal property.” Visner claims that Sweet told her employer, the sheriff’s department, that he and his wife had not been making payments. Visner is able to prove via canceled checks to Sweet that they were indeed paying. “It was blatantly untrue,” Visner added. “There is no evidence to support what the county did, it all shows what we are saying though.” Vinser, who spent six years in the U.S. Navy, most of that time on submarines, and his family returned to their home to find that 95% of their belongings were gone. Visner claims that he was actually arrested for calling 911, the Sheriff’s office in question claiming he had ‘abused the 911 system’ by making the call. “Our story needs to go viral,” Visner adds. “People need to know that they have to stand up for their rights, when we stop standing up for our rights we won’t have them anymore.The Attorney General is dismissing this serious crime… For my family and I, there is no recourse, at least not yet. The AG prohibits complaints of police misconduct and civil rights being violated. I just wrote a letter to the ACLU and explained this. I haven’t heard back from them yet.” Salem-News attempted to reach Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski. He did not return their call in regard to the Visner case. An employee of the sheriff’s office told Salem-News that the agency does not have a public information officer.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:07:31 +0000
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