UPDATE: The tenant was released from jail the following day but has not been seen at the complex at all since. The DA had a temporary restraining order placed on the tenant to stay away from My family and I, which apparently extends to coming back to the complex, even though we do not live there, we are just Interim Management and work there several days a week.
Thanks for the advice, I just needed to know if the attempted blackmail was enough reason to evict for Outrageous conduct. I can do the eviction myself, it is not that complicated to evict someone, as long as you give them the correct notice. I guess I will have to call a lawyer if I want him out sooner then September 22nd.
I just hate to spend company funds on a Lawyer, if I could obtain reliable information elsewhere, since they have had some financial difficulties this past year, after discovering their on-site maintenance person (and his live-in girlfriend) embezzled nearly $200k from them and did not do any of the work he was paid to preform. He actually purchased the materials to do the work and sold them to local businesses and residence! The buildings and properties are in horrible disrepair and is taking every dime we can get to make much needed repairs. It's a long, ugly story. Needless to say, if a Jared Charles Dippre or Melissa "Missy" Crook ever apply for work or to rent from any of you, I would tell them absolutely NOT and immediately trespass them from the properties! First we discovered the embezzlement and started investigating that, gave him an opportunity to come clean and start paying the money back, but he just kept lying, so we fired him. Then we discovered they had been illegally manufacturing hash oil in the garages. They were manufacturing it in the garage with oxygen and acetylene tanks and dozens of other flammable chemicals. They could have blown up the entire complex and killed everyone! We turned all their manufacturing equipment, multiple bags of marijuana and used heroin syringes and spoons over to the police. The police refused to arrest claiming they had been locked out of the area for 2 weeks and we could not prove the items belonged to Jared & Missy! We asked "what about finger prints" and they laughed at us. Later we realized the police did not give us an evidence receipt, which is extremely suspicious to say the least. Then we discovered they had been pilfering tenant units for heaters and stole plug-ins off the back of multiple ranges and had built two illegal marijuana grow operations on the property., one in the attic of their apartment and the other in a metal storage shed on the back of the property. Of course the plants had all been removed by the time we discovered them. But even after they cut the locks off the Office/shop and garage a few weeks later and stole almost every tool the company owned and were caught with the stolen property, then they broke into the personal storage units under the building and stole the owners personal property and files, that they were later caught selling some of the items in a local resell store the police still did not arrested them. First the police claimed it was a "civil matter" because Jared is the owners grandson and used to work for the company, even though we had written proof they were allowed months to remove their personal property from any company area and legally trespassed from the property once we evicted them from their unit. After much complaining and public pressure the DA finally looked into the case. It's been nearly a year later now and we are still waiting for an indictment against them. When Jared Dippre and Missy Crook do get arrested they say they can double their prison sentences by, not only combining all the crimes together (rather the them getting a dozen separate smaller crimes where they would receive a slap on the wrist individually) but they figure they can get a minimum of 15-25 years in prison each by showing they are habitual criminals with absolutely no conscience whose exploitation of the Elderly was so extreme that Jared's 84 year old Grandfather was unable to afford in-home care because of what Jared and Missy stole from them. Plus all the repairs and maintenance that now needs done, that Jared never actually preformed, is a huge stress on his Grandmother and the rest of the family. There is a special charge for exploration of the elderly, I just can't think of it at the moment. If Jared and Missy ask for a jury trial we are told that they will likely receive the maximum sentences, because juries tend to vote with their hearts and recommend maximum sentences when the elderly are taken advantage of and given Jared was their trusted Grandson who stole from them for at least 5 of the 7 years he was employed and Missy was illegally using the company charge accounts (she was not an employee) and the information they stole from their personal storage units has been used in over a half a dozen attempted fraud cases, opening credit card and Paypal accounts and someone in another state was caught working under one family members social security number, these two could spend the rest of their lives in prison. Sorry, but it makes me giddy to think of these two scumbags spending the rest of their lives in prison after what we had to go through taking care of his grandfather all those years, believing that we would be able to hire help when he needed it and instead his wife and other family members had to struggle to take care of him, changing his diapers and such and were forced to put him in a facility, where he died three days later, alone! Long story short, Jared's mother, Debi, admitted to knowing about the illegal manufacturing and "some" of the embezzlement but did not tell us until after the fact and still refuses to give us any details. Her daughter, Jared's sister, had stayed with her grandparents for a few months back before her Grandfather became bed ridden, until they discovered she was sneaking her boyfriend into the house at night and they had stolen tens of thousands of dollars worth of coins, tools and equipment. Basically we have lost that entire branch of the family and haven't heard from any of them since the Grandfather died, and then they only wanted to know what they inherited. What a laugh. Jared was the only one of that clan that was still in the Will and given he would have received only if his Grandmother and their other daughter were both dead, he got nothing and has since been completely removed from the Will.
