Black Bear developers arrested for $1.5M theft
                             

Article Courtesy of The Orlando Sentinel

By Lauren Ritchie

Published May 10, 2014

  

The developers of the Black Bear Reserve development east of Eustis were arrested Friday on charges that they drained homeowner association accounts of $1.5 million and tried to hide the money in shell companies.

 

Mark Carson, 58, and his wife Lee Ann, 57, both of Apopka, each face 25 counts of grand theft and one of money laundering.

The case started in December 2011 when a newly-appointed president of the Black Bear Reserve Homeowner Association complained to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that money was being sent electronically to companies called Chalcopyrite Investments and Rapid Retrieval Inc.

The money came from homeowner dues and from water bills paid by residents of Black Bear's three communities, Upson Downs, Villages and the Lakes.

Carson is being held in the Marion County Jail and his wife is in the Orange County Jail, each under $125,000 bond.

Mark Carson, 58, and his wife Lee Ann, 57, both of Apopka, each face 25 counts of grand theft and one of money laundering.


 

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