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Woman charged in Canandaigua (NY) apartment rental scheme
13wham.com ^ | 8/26/25 | Staff

Posted on 08/28/2025 5:23:56 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU

Canandaigua, N.Y. — A woman is charged with first-degree identity theft for a months-long scheme, according to the Ontario County Sheriff's Office.

Nichelle Beale, 48, of Canandaigua, used another person's identity to rent a unit from Candlewood Apartments on County Road 28 from May 1 through Aug. 13, 2025, the sheriff's office said. She also failed to pay rent and utilities, stealing more than $6,000 worth of service from the complex. The sheriff's office said Beale was arrested Monday and taken to Ontario County Jail, where she remains in custody as she awaits arraignment in CAP court.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: canandaigua; eviction; housing; newyork; nichellebeale; ontariocounty; rent; squatters
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New York State is a squatter's paradise. That's why I required driver's licenses/state IDs to be presented at the tour of a vacancy to match up who is applying. Among many other screening techniques that landlords in RED states would find over the top.
1 posted on 08/28/2025 5:23:56 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
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To: AbolishCSEU

I don’t know how to post pictures. But someone has to put up a picture of Nichelle if for no other reason than entertainment value.


2 posted on 08/28/2025 5:26:25 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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3 posted on 08/28/2025 5:28:47 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: AbolishCSEU

That’s not a woman. That’s “Pauly Long Stocking”.


4 posted on 08/28/2025 5:29:16 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: EQAndyBuzz

That is a Man, Baby!


5 posted on 08/28/2025 5:30:30 AM PDT by Max_850
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To: AbolishCSEU

I sold off my rental. Constant issues, damage, non-payments, small claims court. Diverted the equity into other non-property investments. People suck. I’m sure there are better rental opportunities out there, but it’s not exactly easy money.


6 posted on 08/28/2025 5:31:02 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: tlozo

another Poison Dart Frog.

Nature’s bightly colorful way of telling others; “Avoid this one! It’s toxic!”


7 posted on 08/28/2025 5:31:42 AM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: AbolishCSEU
New York City's Fair Chance for Housing Act (known as Local Law 24 or the Fair Chance Law) became effective on Jan. 1, 2025. The Fair Chance Law prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of a purchaser's or tenant's criminal history.
8 posted on 08/28/2025 5:32:26 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: Max_850

The neck tattoo and mustache are a dead give-away.

If your gonna call yourself a woman, at least shave.


9 posted on 08/28/2025 5:36:56 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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10 posted on 08/28/2025 5:38:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: blackdog

Carrot Top has really let himself go.


11 posted on 08/28/2025 5:53:08 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Activists hate landlords and accuse them of being ruthless, money grubbing pricks. The truth is that tenants are worse, and if you are not ruthless toward them, they will eat you alive.


12 posted on 08/28/2025 6:01:53 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

I hear you. We have been tempted to do so because I screen applicants to the absolute max which red state landlords would find over the top.

Average time to find a reasonably responsible tenant is now well over 6 months going through well over 200 responses per each. The vast majority of renters “let their financial hair down” during the Plandemic so now the chickens are coming home to roost with terrible credit scores, poor rental history, drama galore, etc. I guess not paying your rent and using the expanded unemployment benefits to go on cruises, buy high end electronics, etc. wasn’t such a good idea after all.


13 posted on 08/28/2025 6:09:09 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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Yeah, well. The rules of 2019 also made it much, much more difficult for landlords and took away a great deal of private property rights. For now you can still discriminate against SMOKING which, oddly enough in the renter world, often accompanies other malfeasance.

My free prequalifier has many “trick” multiple choice questions that practically gives a psychological profile on the person applying.


14 posted on 08/28/2025 6:11:37 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: beef

Exactly.


15 posted on 08/28/2025 6:24:35 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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16 posted on 08/28/2025 6:28:46 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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“”She also failed to pay rent and utilities, stealing more than $6,000 worth of service from the complex””

Sorry - don’t understand what service they’re talking about. Utilities would be shut off for non payment along with eviction of the tenant for non payment of rent. All this but was allowed to stay????


17 posted on 08/28/2025 6:29:53 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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not paying rent nor utilities should be considered “theft of services” but here in New York State, it’s just considered a civil matter and you have to go through the legal process of hiring an attorney and wasting months and months of court time.

It should be considered trespassing as well—criminal matter, but bleeding hearts here don’t think so.


18 posted on 08/28/2025 6:38:56 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: tlozo

Poppy GhettoStocking?


19 posted on 08/28/2025 7:31:51 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: tlozo

Pippy GhettoStocking?


20 posted on 08/28/2025 7:32:12 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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