A top Transportation Security Administration official was arrested in Atlanta late last month as per a case involving elder abuse.
TSA Assistant Federal Security Director Maxine McManaman was originally detained at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Dec. 28th by Customs and Border Protection agents after arriving there from her vacation in Jamaica, according to station WAGA.
She was later arrested on a warrant out of Port St. Lucie, Florida, and is currently waiting extradition to St. Lucie County, where she and her father have been accused of taking advantage of and exploiting an elderly family member with dementia.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department reportedly began investigating the case in April after they received a call about alleged elder abuse. The call was from McManaman’s brother.
“She is accused of forging a quitclaim deed, where she had signed a document, basically conveying a property belonging to a family member over to her and her father,” Det. Amanda Bukata, of the Port St. Lucie, Fla., Police Department told WAGA.
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The police affidavit reportedly states that McManaman and her father, Delroy Chambers Sr., filed an illegal property deed to swindle her brother, Delroy Chambers Jr., out of a home worth $321,500.
The brother isn’t the exploited elderly individual mentioned earlier.
“The house had been owned solely in their mother’s name since 2008, the affidavit says, and in 2010, the mother signed documents giving her son power of attorney,” according to WAGA.
“Chambers Jr., told police that since then, their mother has been suffering from dementia, and that their father has been abusing and exploiting her, having her sign documents and failing to properly take care of her, resulting in his mother’s admission into a hospital multiple times,” the station notes.
But the two then took it too far in December of 2022 by using a quitclaim deed scam to acquire ownership of the home.
“The investigation determined that on December 5, 2022, a quitclaim deed was prepared by Maxine McManaman and stated that the Grantor was listing Maxine McManaman and Delroy Chambers as the Grantee. There were two signatures on the back of the document both listed as Grantor,” the Port St. Lucie Police Department explained in a Facebook post.
“One was Maxine McManaman’s with letters ‘POA’ [power of attorney] in front and the other was Delroy Chambers. It was determined that the Grantor could not have signed the document on the date specified, since the Grantor was determined to be in Atlanta, GA on that date. Maxine McManaman and Delroy Chambers, Sr. were determined to have both falsified the quitclaim deed,” the FB post continues.
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The two successfully pulled off the scheme by not including Sr./Jr. designations in the quitclaim form, so as to make it look like the brother had voluntarily handed over the property to McManaman and her father.
The affidavit further states that when a detective spoke to McManaman in April, she lied through her teeth, claiming she had power of attorney (not her brother) and that her father hadn’t been abusing her mother.
Police reportedly didn’t buy it.
“Going behind the owner’s back and saying that they are [the owners] and forging a document, as if he had given them the home, is a crime,” Bukata told WAGA. “Their intent was to pass it off as if it was legal, which it was not.”
Bukata also described the abuse they police had witnessed.
“There’s documentation that her [the mother’s] prescription was not picked up, even though he [the father] was going to the same pharmacy to pick up his prescription,” she said. “She [the mother] had bedsores on her body, was not given her blood sugar medicine. She was brought to the hospital multiple times for dire situations.”
McManaman now faces one count of forgery, a third-degree felony, whereas her father faces charges of exploitation of an elderly/disabled adult, forgery, and simple neglect.
Speaking with WAGA, her father denied abusing his wife and essentially claimed it’s all a big misunderstanding and that McManaman had been working with him to try to prevent them from losing the home.
“All I want is to get my daughter out of [jail],” he added.
He also had something to say about the brother: “How can you do this to your sister?”
As for McManaman, she’s reportedly now on leave from the PSA pending an investigation and, unlike her father who bonded out of jail, remains locked up in Georgia waiting extradition to Florida.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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