I am Renee's sister. I don't hide behind emails and will gladly give my name: Diane Officer, I live in Florida as well.
This situation has gotten way out of control. So let me explain a few points that this 'Candace' person is leaving out of all of her postings.
First of all, my sister had found out that she was pregnant, her doctor suggested to get rid of her reptiles since she was already classified in a very high risk pregnancy, which she miscarried a week after this transaction.
After advertising on Craigslist, Someone by the name of Kira aka Candace, came to my sisters home (yes, her home where she and my disabled nephew live) and poured out this BS story of how she wanted to buy all of my sisters reptiles, but was waiting for her tax refund to clear her bank, blah blah blah. My sister is far from stupid, however she was stupid enough to take a worthless check from a worthless person. She always gives the benefit of the doubt and helps anyone she possibly can. One of her character flaws!
I went to visit her the weekend the reptiles were picked up and on Monday, we went to the bank together. The tellers looked at each other and made a wierd face. Renee was told that this check wouldn't clear, ever, because the account had been closed for a year. Renee was shaking at this point thinking that she had been ripped off by a con artist, so she called Kira who explained that she was appaulled that the bank would have said such a thing! To make an extremely long story a little shorter, Renee was emailed and called from Kira, her boyfriend and Candace, all from the SAME email address AND phone number. As a matter of fact, her boyfriend said Kira or Candace was killed in a car accident, he would like to bring the reptiles back to my sister because he didn't want to take care of them and she owed Renee the money.
Candace swears that she was taken advantage of by an old roomate that wrote checks of hers, HOWEVER, some of my sisters reptiles CANDACE sold, how convenient!!!
Now, how coincidental is this???
There is currently an active arrest warrant for Candace.
If you (Candace) do not believe me, feel free to stop on by the Sheriffs Department, don't forget to bring bail money.
Someone is stalking my sister at her home, calling her in the middle of the night, and talking some serious crap.
Really? Is all of this BS necessary?
By the way, I am the one that wrote to The Hedgehog rescue. I had 6 of them and was given Candaces email address by my sister, obviously BEFORE she realized she was ripped off. So whatever 'friend' said the emails came from the same computer......is WRONG!