Barrie landlord says she was scammed by woman charged with posing as a nurse
A former Barrie landlord says she been scammed by a woman recently charged by provincial police with posing as a nurse after allegedly falsifying her credentials to work in long-term care homes.
Paris Moradian says Hailey Roberts left the four-bedroom south Barrie rental property she was squatting in for a full year starting in September of 2019 in disarray, with garbage and dog feces everywhere.
“She has stolen so much things from my house. The house was furnished. 11 TVs were stolen from the house,” says Moradian who tells CTV News her home with a walkout basement had a hot tub which was seriously damaged.
It all started when Moradian says she signed the rental agreement a man who told her a cousin of his was coming by to pick up the keys to the home. Moradian says that woman was not his cousin, but his girlfriend, Hailey Roberts, who was seen driving the man’s pickup truck.
After paying first and last month’s rent – she says the man told Moradian he’d had enough of being lied to and cheated on by Roberts, and he was leaving the home.
“He said ‘Oh, Hailey was cheating on me, and she was with a different man.’ He’d come with the biggest story, and I said ‘I rented the house to you; not to anybody else. Hailey told me ‘Oh I am pregnant. I want to stay here. This is my credit score,’ and I said ‘No, sorry I did not rent the house to you.’ “
For months she tried to remove Roberts from the home Moradian says she didn’t get another penny from the man or Roberts and found out Roberts rented out the home on AirBnB and subletted the walkout basement to a man who told her he signed a rent agreement with the man and Hailey Roberts.
Moradian says she was disgusted to find the home was pillaged and trashed with dog feces and garbage which required more than $10,000 to deep clean. Everything of value in the fully furnished home was stolen, according to Moradian.
“We’ve been through hell. Especially with all the LTB (Landlord Tenant Board) delays and all of this it took me over a year…I lost a lot,” she says. Moradian went to Barrie Police and claims they did very little to help her charge Roberts or at least remove her from the home.
“To try to take her out and I said, ‘She’s a squatter, She’s not my tenant.’ Unfortunately, Barrie Police didn’t help.”
In documents obtained by CTV News, after more than two years the Landlord Tenant Board and a Small Claims court judge both ruled in Moradian's favour; awarding her more than $62,000.
Moradian says she eventually ended up selling the home and lost $300,000 on the investment. She believes Hailey Roberts scammed her and wants her to be charged criminally for it.
Ontario Provincial Police have charged Roberts for allegedly posing as a nurse by assuming another person's identity to work in a handful of LTC homes including in Elmvale and Midland. Roberts is accused of five counts of identity fraud, six counts of using, dealing and acting on a forged document, along with other allegations including three counts of assault with a weapon.
Moradian says she will not rest until justice is served and she gets back the money she is owed. The criminal allegations against Roberts have not been tested in court.
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