Woman charged with theft of more than $423k

KATE GOLDEN

Frontiersman reporter

PALMER - A Palmer woman allegedly said that God, not she, altered the paperwork that allowed her to claim more than $423,000 of her ex-lover's possessions.

Dawn Elise Daily, 57, and Richard Lee Green broke off a three-year relationship in July 2004, he reported to Palmer police officer Shayne LaCroix on April 27 this year.

Green said that Daily, without telling him, took a document in which he gave power of attorney to his mother, Charlotte Fleharty.

Daily replaced Fleharty's name with her own on the papers, and then used them on March 30 to dissolve two liens against her on a house they jointly owned on Indigo Drive in Wasilla.

A $90,000 lien was for money she owed him for work he had done, he said. A $75,000 lien was against any profit Daily would make on the house if she sold it.

Green gave police two lien waiver forms that were signed, "Richard Lee Green by Dawn E. Daily, D.P.O.A. (deputy power of attorney)," and filed March 30 at the Palmer Recorder's Office.

Green also provided documentation that in late October last year, Daily also transferred the titles of two trucks, a 1997 Ford and a 2000 Chevrolet pickup, from Green to herself. Combined, the vehicles are worth about $17,200. He said she had done so without his consent.

On May 10, Green gave police a copy of a quitclaim deed that turned over his home to the Glacier Daily Trust, which was operated by Daily. The deed was signed by Daily, with Green's power of attorney, and by Daily's daughter, Nicole Mether. The house was recently appraised at $258,000.

That day, LaCroix and Alaska State Trooper Investigator Dwayne Shelton parked nearby as Green, outfitted with a wire, went to talk to his ex-lover.

She admitted that she had used the power of attorney document to claim the vehicles and dissolve the liens. She also said she had forged other papers, and that "she would rather (he) find out for himself," LaCroix's affidavit said.

She knew that she was breaking the law, but she felt she was doing the right thing, she told Green. When he asked her what he had to do to get her to stop, she told him he would have to sign over everything to her and her children, dissolve liens he held against her daughter's residence, and return her inheritance.

"In summary, Daily told Green that she did not alter the power of attorney paperwork, but that God had delivered it to her in that condition," the charging document said.

LaCroix said he did not know the details of the liens or the inheritance Daily had mentioned. Daily, he said, chose not to give a statement to police without her lawyer present.

When Palmer police interviewed Daily, she said she was Green's legal power of attorney and that she had legally dissolved the liens, and signed over the vehicles and the house to herself.

Daily was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree theft, a crime that covers thefts of more than $25,000, and four counts of second-degree forgery. LaCroix said more charges may be forthcoming.

She is being held at Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility in lieu of $50,000 cash or corporate bond. A pre-indictment hearing is set for 10 a.m. May 20.

Contact Kate Golden at

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