Recently, YCSO detectives were contacted for assistance in a real estate fraud case involving a location in the 16,000 block of South Cordes Lakes Drive, Cordes Lakes. Spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn says Paradise Valley detectives were investigating a complaint from an elderly victim who stated someone forged documents showing she had signed over her property to a person in Indiana. The deed had been filed with Maricopa County as a legal document. It was later learned the notary signature was a forgery. Extensive follow-up by tracking internet activity led to identifying 30-year-old Jesse Thacker residing at the Cordes Lakes Drive address. D’Evelyn says Paradise Valley detectives discovered 24 additional title/deed related documents had been filed, along with forged notary signatures, from Thacker’s computer in both Maricopa and Yavapai Counties. Estimated value of these properties is in excess of 7 million dollars. Thacker focused on victims that were either deceased, elderly, or the home was in foreclosure.He was booked into the Camp Verde Detention Center on charges including Fraud, Forgery, Impersonation-ID Theft, and Theft. He remains in-custody on $500,000 bond.
