Investigators with the Warren County Sheriff’s Department said there will be a lengthy investigation before they are able to bring any charges of fraud or embezzlement to a former property manager at the Lakeview Estates mobile home park.Homeowners in the neighborhood, which caters to residents who are 55 or older, allege that a former property manager may have taken rent checks without paying them to the company that owns the mobile home park. They also have reported irregularities while buying and selling mobile homes through the former manager, which residents fear hint at other improper activity.Because no one has yet been charged in the investigation, authorities have not released the name of the suspect.Warren County Sheriff Kevin Harrison said there are more than 200 potential victims in the case, including the owner of the mobile home park, a company based in Texas.Investigators met with Lakeview residents Sept. 6 to gain more details about the alleged wrongdoing. Lt. Detective Scott Schoenfeld said because the investigation involves searching a large number of bank records, it will take a significant amount of time before any possible charge would be presented to the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office.“What we have to do is assemble all the facts and gather evidence that this crime occurred,” Schoenfeld explained. “We’re going to have to give the prosecutor enough information where she can sit down in front of 12 (jurors), who don’t know anything about this at all, and convince them that this park manager stole money.”Schoenfeld asked for Lakeview residents’ assistance in providing documentation of rent payments that they were later notified hadn’t been received, or any suspicious financial transactions conducted through the former property manager. Ultimately, Schoenfeld said detectives will have to determine exactly what money is missing and where it went.“Unfortunately, there’s a lot of people involved. It’s going to be a cumbersome process,” Schoenfeld told residents.Lakeview residents were advised not to delete or discard any prior communications with the former property manager, who was recently fired from her position. Schoenfeld said nothing indicates any identity theft took place, but the sheriff’s department will provide information on how to get a credit report, just in case.Janice Hoffmeyer and her husband, Kim, told The Record that they purchased a mobile home in Lakeview Estates last year. Residents of the park own their structures, but lease the land that they are on, so the Hoffmeyers were making monthly rent payments.But when the controversy came to light, they checked with new management at the park and found out they had never been entered as residents into Lakeview’s records.“Nobody knew we lived here,” Janice said. “Also, the people who sold us the mobile home, they were not in the computer either.”Without being in the computer system, she said they’re not sure what happened to the money from their monthly payments.Kim Hoffmeyer said they also paid for a background check to be allowed to move to Lakeview Estates. But none of that information was in the records, either. He said the background checks are standard for residents, and he wonders if any of the money collected was actually used to do the checks.Kim Hoffmeyer said that Lakeview Estates is a great place to live and he is afraid that this controversy will continue to hurt the neighborhood and property values.“It’s kind of shocking to hear something like this,” Janice Hoffmeyer added. “With it being a retirement place, you would not expect something like this to happen.”Bonita Flemming, another Lakeview resident, said she and her husband put $1,000 toward purchasing a mobile home there in March. They conducted the transaction through the property manager.When they were filling out the first check, the manager had them write it directly to the seller, which Flemming said she questioned. Only then did she find out that the property seller was a personal relation of the manager. In May when they closed on the property, Flemming said the manager had her write another check for a $3,000 down payment directly to the property seller.“(The manager) hoped that we’d have more, but I’m glad we didn’t, now,” Flemming commented.Another resident who spoke to The Record, Ken Herod, said he questions whether a trailer he purchased two years ago is actually titled legally with the state.He said the property manager had him write the name of a local bank as the recipient of a $15,000 cashiers check to purchase the trailer.“Well, they’re telling me here that the check should have been made out to Lakeview Estates,” Herod said.After making the purchase, he explained that he didn’t receive a title for months, but in the meantime made another $15,000 in improvements. When Herod did get paperwork, it was for property that was recorded as salvaged, which he said didn’t fit with what he knew about the structure.“I don’t think this title goes to my trailer,” Herod commented. He added that the identification number that should be above the front door of his trailer appears to have been removed.As far as personal interactions with the property manager, Herod said all of the interactions had been positive.“I never knew this was going on,” he remarked.Crime