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 mentioned the feud with Riverview's Creek View HOA's administration firm, The Trowbridge Firm, Inc., started final 12 months when she obtained a discover over the lifeless, barely brown grass in her entrance yard, ABC Motion Information reported.
“When you drive round my neighborhood, you'll see there's loads of yards lower than par,” Inexperienced shared.
The mom of two mentioned she tried maintaining her grass inexperienced, however an enormous tree in her entrance yard and a drought that had her county impose obligatory watering restrictions final 12 months made it tough to take care of.
Inexperienced mentioned 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 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 needed to be introduced as much as par. He mentioned you may get seed, you are able to do one thing, however you've obtained 30 days to get it corrected,” Inexperienced mentioned.
The hardworking mother mentioned she complied with the choose'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 instances to attempt to discover out when was my court docket 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 legal professional, Francis Friscia, ABC Motion Information reported.
Inexperienced solely came upon in regards to the warrant when she was pulled over after choosing up her daughter from cheerleading apply on Could 23.
She was then handcuffed and booked into the Orient Highway Jail, the place she came upon no bond had been set.
“I couldn't even go residence to my household. I sat in there for seven days. Seven days within the jailhouse like a felony,” Inexperienced mentioned.
The mom of two was fingerprinted, had her mugshot taken, and lived alongside hardened criminals.
“It makes me really feel horrible. I work laborious to purchase this residence for me and my youngsters 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 mentioned.
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 informed to have the problems resolved by then.
