CharMeck Sheriff Deputy Carr and Supervisor Funderburk

Deputy Carr  Deputy  and  Supervisor Funderburk

Under Sheriff Carmichael administration, I had multiple complaints surrounding Deputy Carr and his Supervisor Funderburk.  Those complaints may have gotten LOST and/or just not forwarded to the new 2019 Sheriff administration, so I want to have a public record of my grievances dating between 2016 and 2018.

In 2016, Deputy Carr casually mentioned that "this Judge would not let this go."  By October 2016, Deputy Carr had stolen all my bill money out my bank account with a $44,000.00 levy.  Another private attorney told me during this time, "it DOES NOT make sense to take all your money from your current obligations to pay back a ten year old past obligation."

Deputy Carr  promised that the money would be returned which I later found out that he had no authority nor control over the return of my bill money. SO he lied repeatedly.  

Because the sheriff administration under Carmichael had no way to file complaints against the deputies, I had to go above and beyond to get that deficiency changed.

Funderburk and Carr both were instructed to call me and answer my questions about the monies that they had stolen from my bank account.  

During the first phone call, as soon as Deputy Carr was about to answer my question about whether or not a judge in Georgia ordered the levy, the phone went DEAD.  Then both Funderburk and Carr called immediately back.  The first call was secretly being recorded based on the clicking noises and some other logistics that I picked up on.  The second call was less formal and their conversation had become quite casual.  I guess the two wanted to have some fun with me.  So Deputy Carr asked me about did I have a friend, then he corrected himself to specifically ask me about a "friend with benefits."  Funderburk did not engage in the conversation, but he condoned it.  Considering Deputy Carr had already suggested that we meet up for a drink on a previous occasion earlier in 2016 (prior to any Georgia drama), I never expected him to rob my bank account and inquire if I had a "friend with benefits."

Nor did I expect Carr's advice to me to "get a loan" to replace the money that he had stolen from me.

So by 2017 when I ran into Deputy Carr and he felt the need to tell me how "highly favored" he was and still working for Char Meck Sheriff department, I was highly irritated.  I filed another complaint with the Sheriff department.  Because I had previously filed a complaint against Funderburk for allowing Carr to ask me inappropriate questions while they were both on the phone. I didn't expect to hear from Funderburk again.  Yet, he called me trying to intimidate me.  He called himself following up on the 2017 complaint against Deputy Carr.  Funderburk also told me that "I need to get over them stealing all my money out of my bank account."  The phone call ended with me calling the Captain because both Carr and Funderburk both were insensitive, disrespectful, and just outright unethical.

Charlotte Mecklenburg County deserves better than Carr and Funderburk.  I am not exaggerating.  There are a few other instances that I omitted in this article, but trust and believe, I have thought long and hard whether I should publicly address the duress that I have endured from these so called public servants.  I have concluded that my voice matters and the PUBLIC deserves better than these two individuals.

All Fingers Keep Pointing to the Sheriff Deputy D. Carr

The Officer referenced in this Facebook post (dated November 1, 2016) was Mecklenburg County, NC Sheriff Deputy D. Carr.  The actual conversation took place around October 25, 2016 shortly after Officer Carr informed me that the bank wire came in on Friday, October 21, 2016 around 3:30pm which was one hour after he left the office at 2:30 pm.  Unfortunately, he was not able to intercept the wire to reverse it back to my bank account.  Apparently, once it goes into the court account, then he can not undo the routing.  

Unfortunately, I did not know that there was only a 50/50 to ZERO chance of me getting my money back.

As you can see by the prior Saturday, October 22, 2016 Facebook post, I had no doubt that Officer D. Carr was going to get my money reversed back into my account.  I had not obtained any legal advice because Officer D. Carr seemed like he was on my side, and I was unfamiliar with how a bank levy works.  

Plus, my bank BB and T had started refunding and depositing all fees associated with the bank levy as pictured above.  So I was expecting Officer D. Carr to honor his word to me as well.

In retrospect, I do remember in August 2016, he was attempting to collect personal property, but I had filed my exemptions paperwork.

Then in September 2016, Officer D. Carr had been trying to find a car to repossess that I had turned in years ago.

After informing Officer Carr, I do not have a personal vehicle at this time.  He mentions that "some judge" will not let this go.  He was constantly reporting every collection attempt and every detail of my habitation. 

So finally, the bank levy a.k.a. "Administrative Hold" freezes my commercial bank account on October 3, 2016.  The bank teller gives me a phone number to call during my phone call into the bank to find out why there was a hold on my account based on my online banking view.  The teller says that she did not know if the phone number was a bank employee phone number or not, but they should be able to explain the administrative hold.  

I call the phone number, and it rings to none other than Officer D. Carr.  I ask Officer Carr "why is my bank account attached to his phone number?"  He seemed surprised by my question. Then Officer Carr mentions that "they" usually let him know when they issue a bank levy. I inform him that I need my account released immediately.  We hang up.  We talk the next day, and he is saying "they" will not release the hold.  He mentions that these bank levies are "scare tactics" and usually the money never leaves the account or it is reversed back. Officer Carr recommends waiting it out.  It should work out.

For more details on the twelve day bank account freeze, see: 

http://applebaumparadigm.blogspot.com/2016/10/coastal-federal-credit-union-membership.html

Anyway, I file formal complaints with the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (161010-000002)  and the National Credit Union Administration (00147109)  . I figured that this bank levy could not be legal.  For Christ's sake, this was an unpaid credit card debt not taxes.  What in the world???

I begin waiting this freeze and collection activity out as Officer D. Carr suggests.  Then finally, on Monday, October 24, 2016 - I go to my bank to see if they can call Officer D. Carr to see when is my money supposed to be returned back to me.  That bank visit did not go well. For more info you can read about it here:   http://applebaumparadigm.blogspot.com/2016/10/branch-banking-and-trust-company-bb.html

I leave Officer D. Carr about 20 voicemails trying to find out about my money on October 24, 2016.  (Feel free to pull all the phone records!)  Finally, I get a call around October 25, 2016 from Officer Carr about him being out of the office on October 24, 2017 and missing the October 21, 2016 money wire interception as I discussed earlier.

I have a attorney consultation later that week trying to make some sense of the "trainwreck" that just wiped out my bank account.  The attorney states that he could have been of assistance during the "ten day account freeze" but not after the money has been wiped out.  So Officer D. Carr did me NO FAVOR.

Also, I leave Sheriff Irwin Carmichael voicemails periodically for a week.  He kindly has his assistant to call me back.  I explain that I am looking for a Judge's name that may have been driving this aggressive collection action.

She arranges a possibly "wiretapped" conference call with Officer D. Carr.  The conference call consisted of three inbound calls from Officer D. Carr.  The first one was pure silence and the call ends in silence. (possibly adjusting wiretap) The second inbound call was the discussion and my attempt to pry a judge's name out of the conversation, but the phone went dead as soon as we got to the "judge" information.  The third inbound call came about 30 minutes later.   Officer Carr and his supervisor were more casual in conversation, and they informed me that none of their paperwork for anyone in the vehicle had a judge's name listed.  In addition, my paperwork was already sent back, and they had no information to give me.  The casual conversation included me answering whether or not I had a male friend with benefits or not?  Since my focus had been solely focused on obtaining a judge's name, I brushed off this "unrelated" casual conversation.

As you can see by this November 4, 2016 Facebook post, Officer D. Carr pointed me to the Plaintiff for more information regarding any names of any judges.

As of February 2017, I have now spoken with Coastal Federal Credit Union and its attorneys in depth, and both entities of Coastal Federal Credit Union seem to point me back to the fact that "the sheriff department stole your money."

On February 14, 2017, another representative from the Sheriff Department also confirmed that Officer D. Carr should have been the one initiating the bank levy.  So again, all fingers keep pointing to Officer D. Carr.

I left Officer D. Carr a detailed voice message on February 14, 2017.  He kindly returned my phone call on February 16, 2017.  Every question that I had for him was met with the answer of "I no longer have the paperwork so I can not accurately answer that question.

Clearly, Officer D. Carr is very good at extortion which is a part of his job but giving legal advice should have been illegal and out of his scope of work in my opinion.  I am seeking an attorney to help rectify my losses.  My original attorney recuse himself since he and Officer Carr were very good friends.  I need this situation corrected as soon as possible.