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Bronx Voice 

November 14, 2023

BRONX - A Bronx woman has been arraigned for selling the home of a dead man who had a similar name to her departed dad, prosecutors said.

Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said Mercedes Tiffany King, 35, was indicted on first-degree Grand Larceny, two counts of second-degree Grand Larceny, second-degree Criminal Possession of Stolen Property, two counts of third-degree Grand Larceny, second-degree Forgery, first-degree Scheme to Defraud, first-degree Offering a False Instrument for Filing, first-degree Falsifying Business Records, second degree Falsifying Business Records, and second-degree Offering a False Instrument for Filing. 

King was arraigned on November 9, 2023, before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Kim Parker. Bail was set at $100,000 cash, $300,000 bond, and $300,000 somewhat got bond at 10%. The litigant is expected back in court on December 7, 2023.

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"The respondent purportedly sold the property for countless dollars, and it was subsequently found that she reserved no privileges to the home," Clark said. "(Lord) purportedly went on a shopping binge spending the cash on an extravagance vehicle, home inside plan, gems and workmanship."

As per the examination, on March 17, 2020, the respondent's dad Edward King, Jr. passed away. The defendant then, at that point, filed a a petition seeking to become the administrator of her father’s estate. 

On April 15, 2020, a man named Edward L. King passed on abandoning his property at 929 East 219th Road in the Bronx, valued at $675,000. The defendant supposedly professed to be the successor to his property and went into an agreement to sell it for $480,000, making $356,075.69 from a wire move which was sent from her real estate lawyer. 

After her lawyer acknowledged she was not the main successor to the home, King was approached to return the cash, yet she refused.

King allegedly spent something like $50,000 on a 2021 Audi Q8, $17,500 on nterior design work, $17,000 on extravagance jewelry, paid her brother $10,000 to be her personal driver, and burned through $6,000 on artwork.

An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.