{"id":383548,"date":"2026-07-23T06:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383548\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:59:27","slug":"judge-sets-800k-bond-for-houston-funeral-home-director-accused-of-trying-to-steal-2m-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383548\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge sets $800K bond for Houston funeral home director accused of trying to steal $2M estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records say Unique Green posed as a dead man\u2019s spouse and filed fraudulent paperwork<\/p>\n<p>Unique Green (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas \u2013 Harris County District Court Judge Hazel B. Jones set bond at a total of $800,000 Wednesday morning for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/21\/funeral-home-director-charged-with-5-felonies-after-allegedly-stealing-nearly-dollar22m-from-dead-mans-estate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">unlicensed Houston funeral home director accused of posing as the spouse of a dead man<\/a> to steal his estate worth more than $2 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Unique Green, also referred to in court records as Michael Green, did not appear in court despite the high bond being set on five felony charges. Green is now scheduled to appear in Jones\u2019 courtroom on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Green was arrested by the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable\u2019s Office on Tuesday afternoon, the agency confirmed, on charges of theft, forgery, and tampering with government records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">In addition to allegedly trying to steal the estate of Lawrence Gammon, whose family says had no connection to Green prior to them hiring Green to handle funeral arrangements, Green is also accused of submitting fraudulent documents to the Texas Funeral Service Commission to obtain a license to be a funeral director and embalmer, before running A Community Funeral Home without a license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorBryce Newberry headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/bnewberry\/\" title=\"View Bryce Newberry&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Newberry<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Bryce Newberry joined KPRC 2 in July 2022. He loves the thrill of breaking news and digging deep on a story that gets people talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Records say Unique Green posed as a dead man\u2019s spouse and filed fraudulent paperwork Unique Green (Copyright 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[294,405,124218,83989,56,58,57,135335,39928],"class_list":["post-383548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-district-court","tag-harris-county-precinct-1-constables-office","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-michael-green","tag-unique-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}