{"id":17951,"date":"2012-11-08T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T22:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17951"},"modified":"2013-08-20T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T12:58:54","slug":"adverse-possession-case-upsets-church-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17951","title":{"rendered":"Adverse Posses- sion Case Upsets Church Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apostle Tami Robinson <\/strong>says she is willing to go on record that she did nothing wrong in applying the state\u2019s Adverse Possession law.<\/p>\n

Apostle Robinson<\/strong>, founder of Well Pavilion Empowerment Center, was charged along with another woman of illegally taking over abandoned homes and moving families into them under the state\u2019s Adverse Possession law.<\/p>\n

Apostle Robinson<\/strong> has filed a lawsuit against the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office over her arrest and the arrest of Samantha Magras-Gavin<\/strong>, the woman she acquired one of the homes for in October 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, we haven\u2019t received any court dates, and I\u2019m happy to say Samantha<\/strong> is still a member of my church,\u201d said Apostle Robinson.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, her husband is upset about the impact this has had on their relationship and image. I think they are trying to destroy our credibility and make us sound like some kind of heinous criminals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did my research thoroughly before I started this. I read articles about others who had done it the wrong way, but I later discovered they were following the same law as I was. Authorities just don\u2019t like this, and I believe they trump up charges to justify their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apostle Robinson<\/strong> feels if she can call the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser\u2019s Office about the Adverse Possession procedure, and do it exactly the way they tell her, how can that be illegal?<\/p>\n

\u201cI filled out all of the proper paperwork with the Property Appraiser\u2019s Office, and at no time was I told this was illegal and unconstitutional. Give us the rules on how they say it\u2019s supposed to be done before we follow the guidelines that are available now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not being told at any point of the process that we\u2019re violating the law. They let us go through the entire process, ad as soon as someone moves into a home, suddenly it\u2019s illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apostle Robinson<\/strong> said this has impacted her ministry tremendously, and she has lost some members, as well as her reputation being ruined unjustly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m about social and economic empowerment for people who have been denied that right. I\u2019ve been a mortgage broker for 12 years, so I know what I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this process ongoing, I can\u2019t go back to work as a mortgage broker until this is resolved. I feel it\u2019s all intentional, and we\u2019ve been tried and convicted without due process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apostle Robinson<\/strong> said her goal hasn\u2019t changed in trying to help those in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cI desire for this system to be a fair system. Don\u2019t trump up charges because you may not like the process, or the fact African Americans are taking advantage of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe if we had found abandoned houses in the inner-city, we wouldn\u2019t be having this problem. Because we did this in upper middle class areas in the suburbs, it\u2019s a problem. To me, that makes it racial.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apostle Robinson<\/strong> said they all have become knowledgeable about the process, and to some that is something law enforcers won\u2019t tolerate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer Apostle Tami Robinson says she is willing to go on record that she did nothing wrong in applying the state\u2019s Adverse Possession law. Apostle Robinson, founder of Well Pavilion Empowerment Center, was charged along with another woman of illegally taking over abandoned homes and moving families into them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}