A Florida house owner was jailed with out bond after a battle together with her owners’ affiliation over violations escalated to the purpose the place a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Irena Inexperienced stated the feud with Riverview’s Creek View HOA’s administration firm, The Trowbridge Firm, Inc., started final yr when she obtained a discover over the lifeless, barely brown grass in her entrance yard, ABC Motion Information reported.
“If you drive around my neighborhood, you’ll see there’s plenty of yards not up to par,” Inexperienced shared.
The mom of two stated she tried conserving her grass inexperienced, however an enormous tree in her entrance yard and a drought that had her county impose obligatory watering restrictions final yr made it tough to take care of.
Inexperienced stated that’s when extra notices began piling in from the HOA.
She acquired one for minor dents in her storage, a unclean mailbox, and having a industrial cargo van with no logos in her driveway — regardless of different residents within the neighborhood having comparable vans.
The HOA then took issues a step additional when she failed to reply to their request and filed a lawsuit in opposition to her, demanding that she right all of the violations.
Inexperienced represented herself, compiling a trove of explanations and photos to make use of in her protection, all of which had been rejected by the HOA and the choose.
She was given an ultimatum by the choose throughout her July 11, 2024, listening to.
“My grass had to be brought up to par. He said you can get seed, you can do something, but you’ve got 30 days to get it corrected,” Inexperienced stated.
The hardworking mother stated she complied with the choose’s orders and made all the mandatory corrections, together with promoting her van and sustaining her garden.
Nevertheless, the mother of two missed her subsequent court docket look, claiming she was by no means personally served a discover to look.
“I reached out to the courthouse several times to try to find out when was my court date,” Inexperienced claimed.
The choose discovered her in contempt of court docket and issued a warrant for her arrest, allegedly on the request of the HOA’s lawyer, Francis Friscia, ABC Motion Information reported.
Inexperienced solely discovered in regards to the warrant when she was pulled over after choosing up her daughter from cheerleading follow on Could 23.
She was then handcuffed and booked into the Orient Street Jail, the place she discovered no bond had been set.
“I couldn’t even go home to my family. I sat in there for seven days. Seven days in the jailhouse like a criminal,” Inexperienced stated.
The mom of two was fingerprinted, had her mugshot taken, and lived alongside hardened criminals.
“It makes me feel horrible. I work hard to buy this home for me and my kids in a better neighborhood and environment and to be taken to jail and to be treated like that for brown grass at my own home… that’s horrible,” she stated.
On Could 29, Inexperienced’s paralegal sister-in-law filed a petition for an emergency listening to.
Friscia claims that she appeared at her court docket listening to in July, the place the choose gave her one other court docket date for “August 19, 2024” and was instructed to have the problems resolved by then.
