A nearly four-year legal tangle that enabled a woman and her daughter to live mortgage-free in a home on a quiet, middle-class neighborhood off Maizeland Road has ended.
El Paso County took possession of the property last week and will try to recoup the $165,000 it has lost in the snafu, according to county spokesman Dave Rose.
“It’s certainly a unique set of circumstances that occurred, and we’d hope it would never happen again,” Rose said Monday.
The saga began on Nov. 19, 2007, when Jeanette Dobbs and her daughter, Jessie, went to the county public trustee’s office to find out how much they would need to regain possession of their house, which was sold to an investor at a foreclosure auction.
The next day, former Public Trustee Patricia Thompson violated several state laws by accepting a personal check for the full amount owed from Jessie Dobbs and instructing employees to backdate a receipt and certificate of redemption so that it would fall within the 75-day period in which an owner can redeem a foreclosed property.
By the time Jessie Dobbs’ check bounced and was returned for insufficient funds, the county treasurer’s office had issued a check to the mortgage holder, which cleared the mortgage and returned the title of the property at 2924 Drakestone Drive to Dobbs.
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