Press Release
OPERATION WHOSE HOUSE FUGITIVES ARRESTED IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA
March 7, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced the arrests of fugitive mortgage broker Yvette Scott Patterson, 41, and her husband Delroy Patterson, 45, both formerly of Lauderhill, Florida. The defendants were arrested in the Kingston, Jamaica area yesterday by local authorities and were detained based on an extradition request of the United States Government.
The Patterson’s were fugitives on an outstanding federal indictment filed in Fort Lauderdale in 2006 as part of Operation Whose House, which charged the Pattersons with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and identity fraud involving mortgage fraud on properties in Broward County, Florida.
To date, Operation Whose House has resulted in 8 defendants pleading guilty and one defendant being convicted after a ten day trial in April 2007. The case involved more than $10,000,000 in fraudulent mortgages. Defendant Ishmael Grant was sentenced and remanded in June 2007 to ten (10)years in prison by United States District Judge William Dimitrouleas for his role in this same scheme.
According to the indictment, Yvette Scott Patterson was a mortgage broker operating Khadmilroy, Inc., located in Plantation and Sunrise, Florida during 2002-2005. She is alleged to have submitted fraudulent mortgage applications and false documentation to mortgage lenders around the United States by using straw buyers and the fraudulent identification documents of innocent victims whose identities were stolen.
The Pattersons will be detained in Jamaica pending their extradition hearings in the Jamaican courts. Mr. Acosta commended the efforts of the Jamaican authorities for their assistance in locating and arresting these fugitives. Operation Whose House involved investigators from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Secret Service, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the State of Florida Office of Financial Regulation. The investigation and prosecution is being handled by Assistant United States Attorneys Jeffrey Kay and Jennifer Keene of the Fort Lauderdale Office.
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