10 Investigates first told you about the case two years ago. A woman is charged with a scheme to defraud for taking tenants’ money.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Investigators have made an arrest in a case 10 Investigates first told you about two years ago. 10 Investigates started looking into the case after Nikita Jones came to us back in 2024, saying she was left homeless after getting an eviction notice. She didn’t understand it because the notice wasn’t in her name. It was issued for another woman named “Aneese Maxwell”, but investigators say Maxwell also went by the aliases “Angel East” and “Annise Maxwell.”
They say her real name is Angie Walton.
A warrant for Walton’s arrest says she falsely represented herself to prospective tenants, saying she could get them into properties she managed. The tenants would be people who normally wouldn’t qualify for a rental unit because of their credit.
The warrant says she’d charge them a signing fee and then secure a lease. According to investigators, she’d do this by falsely signing paperwork claiming to be “Annese Maxwell” to the actual property owner, even providing fake bank statements and pay stubs. Upon securing the lease and the keys, she’d then turn it over to the prospective tenant, but never told them they were not on the lease. In some cases, she would tell the tenant the rent was higher than it actually cost.
There are six different victims on just one warrant out of Pinellas County. Jones is one of them after contacting someone she thought at the time was a property specialist.
“I’m tired now,” Jones said. “I got to do all of this still, I got to move. I got to find my kids someplace else to stay. [She] took me for everything that I got.”
“I’m strong enough that I’m going to make sure my kids got a place to stay. But it sucks that I have to go through this because I seeked [sic] help from somebody who took advantage of me and my children,” she continued.
The owner of the home where Jones was evicted told investigators she had advertised the property on Craigslist and was contacted by “Aneese Maxwell” to see the home and lease it. The owner said she received rent in full for the first two months before the payments were paid “sporadically and partially.” That’s when she initiated the eviction, not knowing that Jones was the one living in the home.
Angie Walton was arrested in Osceola County. She is being held there and then is expected to come back to Pinellas County, where she faces felony charges for scheming to defraud. There were two other warrants for her arrest out of Pinellas County as well.