{"id":202758,"date":"2026-04-19T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202758\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:40:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-supporters-rally-after-brooklyn-deed-theft-advocate-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202758\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Supporters Rally After Brooklyn Deed Theft Advocate Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A prominent advocate in the fight against deed theft is now behind bars on Rikers Island, prompting outrage from supporters who are calling for her release.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to her attorneys, Carmella Charrington was taken into custody Thursday during an appearance at Kings County Civil Supreme Court in connection to the conservatorship of her father in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Her attorneys said they were not present at the hearing and are calling her detention unlawful.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They told News 12 they requested an adjournment, but the judge proceeded with the case and held Charrington in contempt for failing to produce her elderly father in court.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Her father, who partially owns the property on Jefferson Avenue, has been living with Charrington for the past two years after leaving Georgia.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Charrington has previously told News 12 she believes a family member who does not maintain the home improperly sold the property.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The multimillion-dollar brownstone at the center of the dispute has been the focus of multiple legal challenges over the years, with repeated efforts to remove Charrington from the home.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Following her arrest, community members have begun rallying in support of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prominent advocate in the fight against deed theft is now behind bars on Rikers Island, prompting outrage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-202758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}