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Susan Coons, Carpio, charged with defrauding a family out of more than $1 million in land

Susan Kaye Coons, 52, Carpio, is accused of defrauding a Ward County family of more than $1 million worth of land in Ward and Mountrail Counties, according to the Ward County Sheriff’s Department.

Coons is charged in Ward County with Class A felony forgery, Class B felony deceptive writings, and running a fraudulent website, a Class C felony.

According to a complaint in the Ward County case, Coons forged and created false deeds that she registered with the Ward County Recorder’s Office to take possession of land to which she was not entitled and used the web site to advertise land for rent in which she had no valid interest and used the personal information of the alleged victims to transfer real estate to herself.

In Mountrail County, she is charged with two counts of Class A felony forgery, two counts of Class B felony deceptive writings, and Class A misdemeanor violation of a disorderly conduct restraining order.

She is in custody at the Ward County Jail.

In another case, Coons pleaded guilty to Class A misdemeanor harassment in 2019 in Mountrail County and was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation. She had originally been charged with Class C felony terrorizing in March 2019 and had been accused of threatening to kill a Mountrail County woman in a text message and had accused the other woman of destroying a farm.

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