Frontier Homes ‘investigating’ status of files found outside in Maricopa Meadows

A Frontier Homes spokesman said late Thursday he had no idea how or why furniture and discarded mortgage applications wound up outside of its Celebration office in Maricopa.

Ash Minaie, a Frontier Homes staff attorney based in Hesperia, Calif., said he learned about the situation about the same time it hit the local online media (see “Mortgage files with personal information found abandoned at Frontier Homes site“).

“We have moved trailers, and what I have heard is there are some files out there,” he said, adding that he doubted any of them contained personal information.

Minaie said they retained all of the mortgage applications for the area, and that they have all been locked away in storage.

As for the office desks and a filing cabinet left unattended in the site’s parking lot where at least 16 files containing photo copies of driver’s licenses, Social Security cards, bank account information and more were found, Minaie said he couldn’t be sure how they got there.

“Maybe it’s furniture we discarded and put into a bin and maybe someone took it out,” he said. “We don’t know if anybody broke into the trailer. We are still investigating it.”

A homeowner in the area who had stopped by to check on the status of a warranty work order request said he discovered the files by accident. He found the doors locked, the furniture outside and everything from a phone to used office supplies had been tossed out.

Inside, a few sales binders, miscellaneous small items and a mini refrigerator appeared to be all that had been left behind.

Raymond Shaban, who moved into his 2,500-square-foot, five-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath home just more than a year ago, reported his discovery to Maricopa Police who retrieved the files left in a desk drawer. He said one of them was his own.

MPD did not retrieve an unknown number of folders seen in a trash bin on site.

Photo by RuthAnn Hogue