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Re: Marion Griffin, Thomas Verner are scammers (by Peter W.):
It has just been reported that Marion Sheila Verner (aka Barnes and Griffin) and her daughter Kelly Anne Price have both been arrested and held in jail in Wood County, Texas about 18 months after disappearing from Winter Garden, Orlando, where they operated their Disney Area Villas LLC and Disneyandi.com scam up to 17th March 2017 when they 'closed' their business.
They are being held on charges of "Conspiracy - organised fraud" and will be brought to court in some months time. They were arrested under an arrest warrant put out USA-wide, possibly by the FDLE in Orlando or Polk County Sheriff.
They are currently being held awaiting trial in the Wood County Jail, Texas, some distance from Dallas. It seems that they may have been hiding out in small-town Texas hoping to avoid the attentions of Florida law enforcement officers who were looking for them.
Though their appearance has changed considerably over the past 18 months they are definitely the same people who scammed British tourists, villa owners and travel agents out of lots of money over the eighteen month period that Disney Area Villas LLC operated.
Bail has been set at $750,000 and $500,000 for Marion and Kelly respectively in view of the extent of their deceptions.
They are both British, originally from the Chelmsford, Essex, area but they have been living in Florida for many years under various names and involved in various schemes.