What a freaking mess. Why was the compound allowed to stay on these people’s property in the first place!?
The NM property owners went to the The Taos County Sheriff’s Office four months ago .
The Taos County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Steve Fuhlendorf said the couple didn’t file the proper paperwork to enforce the eviction.
Why was the compound allowed to stay on these people’s property in the first place!?
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Maybe they quit smoking and didn’t have a BIC......
Well, I’ve read every article I could find and it appears the property owner had agreed to swap parcel deeds with the group after they ignorantly built on the wrong one.
But then the group couldn’t come up with the cash for the titling or deed recording for said swap and got tired of waiting and tried to evict them and then failed in some way to file perfect paperwork to get said eviction approved by the court although notice was served.
I’m not blaming the couple, I blame the system which has become too arcane (thanks, lawyers) for most people to successfully navigate on their own.
I think the Sheriffs department did make some tactical errors, the first one being to listen/trust the FeeBIs. They will lie and leave you holding the bag of poop. A good sheriff should remember that HE is in charge of his county.
The second mistake was not recognizing the threat potential of this sketchy group that had moved into his county. A smart sheriff would have held the property owners hand and walked them through the process of successful eviction just to get these sketchy characters out of his county.
The third mistake was not reporting the group for child abuse once the presence of any children, not just the missing child, at the compound because it had no water and no sanitation. That could have been used to take a look around.
I’d like to know if the FBI suggested the sheriff’s department could be investigated for civil rights violations and was trying to avoid being Arpaio’d.