The authorities allegedly found over 1,300 marijuana plants while investigating an unrelated incident, and they have purported that it is a part of an illegal growing operation being run by a felon.
36-year-old Javier Perez Diaz is a felon who hails from the unincorporated community of Mecca, California, in Riverside County.
Around 7:00 am on December 21, three special teams of deputies with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department were investigating an agricultural theft in the area.
A Riverside County woman who worked as a foreclosure specialist at Fannie Mae in Irvine has been accused of taking over $1 million through accepting bribery and employing fraudulent sales practices with company-owned properties.
Shirene Hernandez, a 45-year-old resident of Riverside County, was a real estate owned foreclosure specialist for the government-sponsored Fannie Mae in Irvine. Her job duties entailed matching properties owned by the company with brokers and accepting sales offers when proposed by the brokers.
During a time period spanning from April 2011 and July 2016 Hernandez has been accused of personally profiting off of the sales transactions of the properties through fraudulent means. Court documents reflect that Hernandez allegedly accepted gifts and cash from certain brokers in order for them to gain the listing so they would profit off of the sales commissions. In addition, some of the foreclosed properties were said to have been purchased by Hernandez at a price below market value, using different names, and then rented out for profit. In total, it was estimated that Hernandez acquired more than $1 in profits from the alleged fraud.
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