Please!!!!
I’ve been afraid for my life since Aug 1, 2020, because of fighting APS and advocating for my husband before his death and now fighting for my property. I don’t trust any of these people.
I just use a mailing address as I am afraid for my life. I am getting my house stolen “legally” by the following people, local Realtor Keith Hurtubise/REMAX, attorney Virgiinia A. Frazer-Able, Judge Todd Vriesman in probate mortgage fraud in Jefferson county, CO.
This is a Federal/National problem not just a state problem of organized crime. Some of my story is up here on my blog but I will be posting all legal documents in time. In our area if anyone calls for a welfare check they call APS and Virginia is immediately assigned. They lock up your money immediately. My property is at 350 Harlan St, Lakewood, CO and I know of other people this is happening to as well as 4 other states but it is across the country and nobody is addressing this. It doesn’t matter if you have a will or proof against them as that is all ignored. It is a David and Goliath situation.
APS Adult Protective Services is in the business of estate theft and elder abuse. It is so hard to believe this is happening and when we try to fight them, the attorneys just take your money with no hope. My life is in danger from them, so I live in an undisclosed area due to APS threats. Judge Todd Vriesman just denied my rights to a jury trial, my rights for stay of deadline to try to keep them from selling my house, my rights for notice of issues, my motion pro se Litigant. My civil rights have been violated. I filed a Motion to Recuse Judge Todd Vriesman 8/11/23 but he will probably not go along with this as they are so confident they have all the power. We need national help, and this should be put in front of the national FBI not local, as someone already tried to get help locally an they wouldn’t help. Somebody needs to do something. There must be someone to help.
This is my story.
Ed Lenca and I made a commitment to common law marriage in 2008. Some of the story is uploaded online here. I have emails for every year we were together that proves our life together.
https://emotionology.org/life-with-ed-2008/
https://emotionology.org/everyone-needs-to-know-this/
https://emotionology.org/how-could-this-all-go-wrong/
Ed was a marine and although I was 12 years older than him, we were well suited for each other for many years. In 2009, Ed lost his job, and I supported him for 5 years. He had arthritis in his hands and ankles so his work as a cement finisher was too hard on his body. I paid for him to go to welding school. Then we tried to get work for him as a welder in his own business but that didn’t work.
During 2009-2011 I totally remodeled our house in front. There was a barn in the back that was previously built. In 2012 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and I stayed with him to recover from that. In 2012 Ed gave me a will calling me his common law wife because of everything I had done for him and taking care of the property. In 2013 I was tired of supporting us so I quit my job and put a rough kitchen and bathroom into the barn so we could live there and rent out the front house so he could feel like he could pay the house bills.
In 2017 I wanted to move back into the front house since Ed now had SSI which could support the house bills and I had a small ssi. We had an agreement in that move, I would get financial and medical POA, he would agree not to smoke in the house, and he would give me a new will stating our agreement that also his brother Mike, who was a criminal, would not put me out of the house if anything happened to him. I also didn’t have the energy to take care of two properties. so sold mine house to my son which had been rented. I wanted some assurance from Ed that I would always have a home so that is why I asked for the new will and POA. That worked fine for a while, and I started a new business with an office in Littleton. My work became so busy that I was working 10 hrs. a day and often staying in my office at night. I was paying for remodeling on the property as well as editions to the barn.
In 2019, Ed started having difficulty with alcoholism. He had a few extra bouts and I suggested he go to rehab. He agreed but walked out after about 4 hours. Evidently, he wasn’t enough of an alcoholic to have any symptoms, and they didn’t need to give him medical treatment. He took a taxi home. After leaving, they wouldn’t take him back and his alcoholism progressed off and on. I requested help from his good brother Steve, and our realtor friend Keith Hurtubise for advice and also took him for evaluation at the VA. They said to let him live as he pleased, that it wasn’t my choice.
November 20, 2019 he was drinking while I was away from the house. I stopped home to get something and found Ed on the floor in the bedroom. He had hit his head and was drunk. I called 911 and they took him to the hospital for treatment. They kept him for 10 days because of medical alcohol treatment and he had a full recovery, promising that he would not drink anymore. He had lost his VA benefits, so I worked to help him get them back and to get meals on wheels for him.
The VA would only allow home health care and meals on wheels if I removed all unlocked guns on the property. Ed was a big gun enthusiast, so he had 3 safes full of guns as well as them lose all over the property. Without knowing much about guns, I found a gun dealer that collected the loose ones and sold them for about total $11,000. That money went into the property. Ed also agreed to sell his rotted-out corvette in the back yard and motorcycle that he had an accident with in 2012 and never rode again. We were not able to sell the vet for cash, so we traded it for plumbing under the house as pipes needed replacing. The bike was sold for $1500. That money went into the improvements I was making to the property.
Ed had started to become abusive in 2019 whenever he was drunk so Keith started helping me and I was spending most of my time at work or out of town. We thought Keith was our friend. I was working overtime and making trips to visit grandkids, so I asked Keith to keep an eye on Ed. Everything seemed to be fine until Covid hit in March 2020. My work stopped. Since I was going to be home, I started finishing the remodel on the barn and cleaning up the yard that had been so neglected. I had put 2 additions on the barn, and had the big trees trimmed. I paid for all this. Some of the money from sale of loose guns went into the property but I had spent everything I earned on fixing up the property from 2017 t0 2019 and now with no work and income taxes due I had to repay myself for some of the improvements so I could return money I had borrowed from my son to fix the property and to pay taxes. I finally got back to work at the end of May.
During Covid and isolated, Ed had taken up the drinking again and was really getting so abusive that I often had been hiding in the barn to stay away from him. I didn’t know what to do as all my money was tied up in our property. I had no other place to go. Once again, I rented an office but this time it was around the corner from our house so I would have a place to work and also have a place when Ed was acting mean. I had never had that kind of experience with and alcoholic and domestic abuse and didn’t know what to do. I never drank myself. I let Keith and Ed’s brother know how bad Ed was behaving and asked for help by staying in touch with them and keeping myself scarce.
In July 2020, Keith had a woman friend named Marlene call for a welfare check on Ed. At first the police showed up and couldn’t find anything wrong, so they left Ed alone, but Marlene persisted and called APS and made a false claim against me of caretaker neglect and exploitation. Marlene knew nothing about our relationship or arrangement but pretended to be a good friend of Eds. She was a friend of Keiths from the 90s and unbeknownst to me, before meeting Ed, evidently, he was in a meth business with these two people. I found all this out about a year later when Ed confessed to me. He bought all his guns with that money while I had thought they had come from his family and work.
APS started showing up at the house and threatening me from that time on. Right away Virginia A. Frazer-Able locked up our joint checking account that Ed’s SSI was deposited into and paid the house bills. I couldn’t understand what was happening as I told them the whole situation and I was the one getting abused. They kept calling me his caretaker. How could I be his caretaker when we each took care of ourselves? Sure, I managed the money and bills and took care of the property, but the VA had told me to let him be and let him live as he pleased, and we each were responsible for our personal selves. I have an email stating this from the VA.
Trying to please the threatening APS people, August 1, 2020, I hired a full-time live-in caretaker for Ed while I stayed either away or in the unfinished barn. The VA had a home health care person come once a week. We became friends. She told me that Diane Head, investigator with APS, asked her to pick up food for him from the food bank after they had taken our money. They did not pay the house bills or buy food. They didn’t pay his phone bill, so his phone got disconnected. I paid to have it started again. Later he lost his phone walking down the road. This was becoming a nightmare.
When Ed realized Sept 4, 2020 that they had taken our money he stopped drinking cold turkey. The live-in caretaker told APS that he needed medical attention, and I notified the VA, but APS did nothing to help him. He was already under their care and a ward of the state. Ed seemed to be doing fine without alcohol and made a statement that I recorded with him completely sober hoping to stop APS from taking over, but we couldn’t seem to do anything to stop them. Then Sept 15, 2020, I had stopped at home to get something, Ed was crazy and didn’t recognize me and was being very threatening. He was sober but nuts. The caretaker had left as everything had gone crazy with them. I had to call the police and hide in the barn. I got a temporary restraining order.
The next morning, I called and reported what happened to the VA. Ed had calmed down but was acting funny. They thought he might have had a stroke and told me to bring him into the VA ER. I was done with this, so I told them that he was under their care as APS had already taken over and I was moving out. I had no place to go but my office. I left for a trip. I had been dealing with a dislocated shoulder and heart problems and had found out that my youngest son had a brain tumor. All this was too much.
Back to early in 2019, Ed had thought his cancer was coming back so we had put the house in my name as our intention was to get a reverse mortgage to pay for a long-term care policy for Ed and we needed a plan. But things happened too fast, and my work was busy, so I didn’t get this done in time. The VA kept Ed until September 28. During that time, I was informed by a person at the Va that APS was coming after me and I needed to stay away from Ed. I left most of my things behind and moved into my office. While Ed was in the VA hospital, I resigned as POA, took my name off our checkbook, and made a deed for the house in Ed’s name thinking that APS would have what they wanted and leave me alone and Ed would be taken care of. How wrong could I be?
APS carried on a threatening case against me and I fought for a fair level hearing until Virginia A. Frazer-Able, the conservator, sent the last letter stating I had 10 days to answer, to the wrong address rather than my requested email as I had asked, since I had no legitimate address. That ended my ability to have a fair level hearing against them. It had gone all the way to Joshua Brinkman in the Administrative courts. Virginia had followed it all the way there, but they never gave me a chance. I was always being threatened with criminal behavior by them. They all seemed to be in cahoots, and no one questioned APS people. There is no defense against them, and you can’t get rid of them.
Not sure right now of the date but someone took all of Ed’s guns in 2021. The neighbor texted me that something was going on and I drove past our house. Ed came out and told me that a group showed up taking all his guns from his safes. He said he made a theft report with Lakewood police thinking his insurance would pay for the guns they took since they didn’t give him any money. He also told me that he found $1500 in the back of the safe that they missed. After that, Detective Monn with Lakewood police called me and asked if I knew who did this as Ed made a police, and he didn’t know who the people were that took them. I tried to give her names that might have taken them but suspected the guardian had removed them.
I never went into the house to see Ed. I would sometimes see him outside on the street and talk to him. Then on July 12, 2021, I had a bad feeling and went to see Ed. He was passed out drunk unconscious and the house was filthy. The property had not been kept up. I took pictures and called Lakewood police. After that Lakewood police started to try to blame me for taking the guns and I had to get a criminal lawyer to defend me. Fortunately, the DA wouldn’t prosecute. Detective Monn had called APS to see if they knew who took the guns, but no one owned up to it. She also called Virginia who said, “I must have just stopped by and found Ed asleep” when questioned about the alcohol and lack of care for Ed.
As a result of detective Monn’s police report and hiring attorney Tom Ripp to first handle fighting for me at first in probate, I found out that Virginia A. Frazer-Able had called a locksmith to open the safe and they had tried to pin it on me to get me in trouble. Virginia had sold ammo to a gun dealer. Virginia and my lawyer were talking so he was complicit with her. I fired him but it took me 3 months to get rid of him as judge Vriesman took so long to rule on anything.
After APS took over Ed’s life, they had a psy report that basically made him incompetent to make any decisions and totally incapacitated. However, our friend Keith made up a new will behind my back. I didn’t know he was involved with mortgage fraud with his REMAX manager. I found that out from a neighbor after Ed died. I was completely unaware of this new will by Keith. He had put 2 of Ed’s siblings on the will just to make it look legitimate. They were not interested. I had seen Ed for Christmas to give him a gift. I didn’t go into the house but I had taken a picture of him Thanksgiving. He was desperate then to get rid of these people. I texted him some possibilities. When I saw him Christmas his teeth that I had paid for his full mouth reconstruction in 2009 were falling right out of his mouth. He looked like malnutrition. I know they never took him to the doctor once I left. They also stopped meals on wheels and home health care. Two weeks later Ed died suddenly, and they cremated him hiding his death from me until I found out in February and found that Keith was trying to do a private probate. I hired attorney Tom Ripp to fight this. Once we challenged this will, Kieth backed out but Virginia took up the fight pretending to be fighting for Keith and the family while not getting paid by them. Later after I did some research, I found that she had put our house in her name 2 days before Ed died and made herself his Personal Representative. I did my own filing after Tom Ripp withdrew all the filings, I had paid him for. It took several months for the court to recognize me, and they never answered any of my filings in probate but Virginia lawyered up and went back and forth with me for a while complaining to the court that it was costing too much money with my filings. The judge ignored me until last week when I filed MOTION FOR JURY DEMAND. Then Judge Vriesman denied me everything. I have filed for his rescue but that probably won’t help as he OKed Virginia’s request to get my property ready for quick sale before foreclosure. This foreclosure will happen in September because she put a reverse mortgage on the property without me knowing it to take $80,000 from the paid off property. She did this with her conservatorship in 2021 without my name on it and without notifying me.
Judge Vriesman is too friendly with Virginia. Virginia is pretending to represent the fake will Keith made with Ed after he was already incompetent according to APS, but Virginia is using this to block my wills and fighting against me calling herself Ed’s Personal Representative. I believe that they killed him because they tried to keep his death from me and immediately cremated him not following his wishes to be buried in Michigan.
Virginia collected his SSI since Aug 1 2020, took his guns worth probably $400,000 and his ammo, collected $80,000 from the reverse mtg in his name alone and is pretending now that the estate is only the house and Judge Todd Vriesman had ruled against my STAY OF DEADLINES and he has OKed her getting the property ready for sale before foreclosure. This is wrong. I need your help. Someone has to stop these people from elder abuse. I am 81 years old, and they are taking the home that was supposed to be mine. They have caused me harm for 3 years. I am writing to everyone, so they know this is happening all over the country with APS and mortgage fraud in probate. Please wake up!!! Mary Hallgren. [email protected]