A trio has been busted for the macabre business of renting and selling off a dead person's property, Mohave County Sheriff's Office reports. In an eerie twist of greed, 38-year-old Kevin Andrew Strawbridge and 30-year-old Jami Demaria, both from Mohave Valley, had allegedly set up shop in a deceased individual’s home and were caught red-handed dealing in stolen wheels. The fraudulent trio was rounded up after a probe that was launched last month upon the discovery of squatters in the Pebble Lake area residence of the departed soul.
According to the FOX 10 Phoenix report, "Strawbridge and Demaria were also found to be responsible for the theft of three of the decedent’s vehicles and the sale of two of the vehicles." Accompanying them in the scheme, 29-year-old Sheyenne Keller from Fort Mohave played the part of a notary too ready to illegally stamp their underhanded seal on the stolen vehicle titles. The trio's ball of deception unravelled when Keller was also embroiled in another felony, implicating them with possession of firearms and narcotics.
In a crackdown that spanned across the Mohave Valley and Fort Mohave Area, Sheriff's Deputies in collaboration with Fort Mohave Tribal Police executed five search warrants, detaining the suspects and recovering a bounty of illicit goods. The Bee News detailed the raid, revealing that "During the execution of the search warrant, Deputies located several items of evidentiary value supporting multiple felony charges." Recovered were snatched vehicles, booty from various burglaries, dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and two firearms.
"Strawbridge was found in possession of stolen items and a vehicle title which he had signed over to his name," as stated by the Bee News. His rap sheet now includes counts of theft, conspiracy, fraudulent schemes, burglary, possession of stolen property, and trafficking stolen property. Meanwhile, Demari also faces her own slew of felony charges including conspiracy, fraudulent schemes, burglary, and trafficking stolen property. While conducting a search warrant, Keller and an accompanied man, 33-year-old Travis Wolf of Fort Mohave, were charged with an arsenal of felonies.
Adding insult to injury, the group showed no mercy as one of their victims is a military member fighting overseas, only to be welcomed home by the cold reality of his burglarized property and missing car. Both Keller and Wolf, believed to have forged a forged a quagmire of lies and theft, are under the additional burden of multiple felony charges according to evidence surfaced in the ongoing investigation.
