Darcey Greenfield, a 17 year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department has been arrested for misleading police officers and others in a widespread real estate scam. Greenfield, who was a detective when she resigned from the LAPD, has been involved in real estate since the mid 1990s. Undoubtedly, Greenfield used her position as a police officer in order to assuage her victims fears.
According to documents filed by the San Bernadino County district attorney, Greenfield pulled at least 13 members of the LAPD into the scheme. Her victims claim that she talked them into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into a plan that would yield high results on their investments. Greenfield was to use the funds collected to help homeowners facing foreclosure, and soon thereafter both Greenfield and her investors would get their money back, with interest. One couple that fell victim to the scam say that Greenfield vowed to sell her own property if the deal fell through. The only problem is that Greenfield never followed through on her promises, leaving her investors in massive debt.
After Greenfield turned herself in, the judge presiding over her pretrial case set the bail at $1 million. As Greenfield continues to sit in jail, she claims that she herself was the victim of a dubious scam. According to Greenfield, disgraced Bishop Leroy Dowd asked her to lend him money for a church that was facing foreclosure. Dowd was charged for defrauding a local bank and scamming a woman in California, but investigators are convinced that Greenfield somehow played a role in the scam.
