Mother, Son Suspected of Forgery

A mother and her son were arrested on suspicion of forgery after police learned of a 1996 scheme in which fake documents allegedly were used to get a quit-claim deed on the family’s house, police said Friday.

Camarillo residents Shirley Juels, 59, and Andrew Juels, 32, were arrested Thursday after a monthlong investigation allegedly revealed that a forged deed had been recorded at the Ventura County recorder’s office, police said.

According to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, the name of Shirley Juels’ ex-husband, Robert Ernest Christiansen, was forged Oct. 10, 1996, on a quit-claim deed for a house in the Santa Rosa Valley that was then owned by Shirley Juels and Christiansen.

Detectives believe that Shirley and Andrew Juels went to a Moorpark notary business and that Andrew Juels falsely signed Christiansen’s name and used a fake driver’s license as identification.

Shirley Juels allegedly recorded the residence with county officials in her name and then refinanced the house, police said.

Shirley Juels was arrested Thursday morning as she drove away from her house and Andrew Juels was arrested when he went to the East Valley Sheriff’s Station in Moorpark to bail out his mother, police said.

A search of Andrew Juels’ Camarillo house also netted numerous fake documents containing the names of Christiansen and other people, police said. Officers also said they had seized several weapons and a controlled substance in Andrew Juels’ car.

Both were booked into the Ventura County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.