A Florida house owner was jailed with out bond after a battle along 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 useless, barely brown grass in her entrance yard, ABC Motion Information reported.
“In case you drive round my neighborhood, you’ll see there’s loads of yards less than par,” Inexperienced shared.
The mom of two stated she tried retaining her grass inexperienced, however an enormous tree in her entrance yard and a drought that had her county impose necessary watering restrictions final yr made it troublesome 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 related 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 appropriate all of the violations.
Inexperienced represented herself, compiling a trove of explanations and photos to make use of in her protection, all of which have been rejected by the HOA and the decide.
She was given an ultimatum by the decide throughout her July 11, 2024, listening to.
“My grass needed to be introduced as much as par. He stated you may get seed, you are able to do one thing, however you’ve obtained 30 days to get it corrected,” Inexperienced stated.
The hardworking mother stated she complied with the decide’s orders and made all the required 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 a number of occasions to attempt to discover out when was my court docket date,” Inexperienced claimed.
The decide 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 concerning the warrant when she was pulled over after selecting up her daughter from cheerleading observe 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 dwelling to my household. I sat in there for seven days. Seven days within the jailhouse like a felony,” Inexperienced stated.
The mom of two was fingerprinted, had her mugshot taken, and lived alongside hardened criminals.
“It makes me really feel horrible. I work arduous to purchase this dwelling for me and my children in a greater neighborhood and atmosphere and to be taken to jail and to be handled like that for brown grass at my own residence… 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 decide gave her one other court docket date for “August 19, 2024” and was instructed to have the problems resolved by then.
