The case of a realtor charged with conning unsuspecting would-be homeowners out of more than $100,000 was fast tracked to the Supreme Court.
Daisymae Johnson will now have to answer all 21 charges of stealing by reason of service before a Supreme Court judge on March 13, 2012 after prosecutors from the Office of the Attorney-General served a voluntary bill of indictment (VBI) on her, halting all proceedings in the lower courts.
The 58-year-old woman was allegedly posing as an agent and operator for a company called Gibraltar Real Estate and Land Development Company.
Between 2007 and 2009, Johnson allegedly collected thousands of dollars as down payment for house and property packages from customers.
Police charged that the Gibraltar representative had devised and executed an elaborate scheme to defraud dozens of intended homeowners.
The homeowners allege they made down payments to the company for construction to begin on their home, had even attended a grand ceremony for the start of the development and were even shown land in the Heritage and Chesapeake subdivisions and in the eastern areas of Freeport on which their home was to be built.
More than two dozen would-be homeowners came forward and claimed they were swindled out of thousands.
