Express Gay News (Issue 68)
Disaster and Deceit
Arrested twice in the past ten days
on minor driving offenses, those traffic law violations might be the least of
the problems Patric Ian Henn, 27, of Middle River Terrace in Fort Lauderdale is
now facing.
An exclusive Express
investigation has revealed Henn has collected over $25,000 from various agencies
offering emergency cash aid to victims, without substantiating a single claim
that he was a legitimate domestic partner of a person who purportedly perished
in the September 11 disaster.
Furthermore, the New York City Police Department has now confirmed they too have
an ongoing investigation into the claim by the man who says he was living
"elegantly and affluently" with the help of his partner, who he claims died in
the World Trade Center that fateful morning.
The Express, however, has discovered
Patric Henn was living alone, by the seat of his pants, threatening landlords,
while getting evicted from a series of apartments, before finding succor and
support from a series of charitable agencies who may have themselves been
suckered.
It was Henn who initiated the
investigation when he called The Express in December of 2001 to say that his
lover of four years, Jeff John Andersen, 28, perished in the attacks.
Henn called to say he was disturbed and
angry at the way he was treated by the New York based gay and lesbian agency
charged with disbursing disaster relief funds.
But the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA),
the agency overseeing 9-11 funds for the gay community, may have been the only
agency that searchingly attempted to validate Henn’s claims to benefits as a
domestic partner. Their offices are now beginning to question whether Henn is a
survivor of a lover actually lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Says Matt Foreman, the former Executive
Director of ESPA, "I don’t believe him."
"They have made the whole situation into a political cause," Henn told The
Express,standing outside his new apartment, paid for by the American Red Cross.
"People try to understand, but you can’t
unless you were there." But Henn was not.
According to Henn, he was living in South Beach on September 11, when Andersen,
who was visiting New York, entered the World Trade Center’s Tower 1, before 9
am, to handle some investments with a stockbroker he could not name. He later
told friends Andersen was at Merrill Lynch, but Merrill Lynch could not confirm
Andersen had an account there.
"He called
me a little after 8 a.m., from his cell phone, to say he was there at the World
Trade Center," Henn says. He claims it was the last he would ever hear from his
partner.
But Henn also told The Express
that Andersen often "slept around, and he may have been at the Trade Center
‘Gap’ store, in the basement, visiting a trick."
Telling two other different stories to
two separate agencies, Henn claims he immediately went to New York, and was
directed to the American Red Cross national offices. Once there, he filled out
the benefits form required by the New York Law Department.
Notarized by Nicole Clayton, and sworn to
by Henn on September 26, 2001, the document is entitled, ‘Affidavit by Person
With Personal Knowledge for Issuance of a Death Certificate.’
Every item he lists regarding his
supposed domestic partner cannot be verified or is inaccurate.
Addresses Don’t Match Claim
Form
Henn, who listed his own address as
450 21st Street in Miami Beach, identified his ‘domestic partner,’ Jeff
Andersen, as residing separately, at 751 Meridian Avenue, #2, also in Miami
Beach.
But a check of the Meridian Avenue
location last week revealed that an elderly Cuban couple resided there all
during the year 2001. Henn, himself, however had lived at the location in the
year 2000, but only for three months, and was forcibly evicted by the owner and
the Miami Beach police.
Stated Robert
Tememe, the property manager, "Henn moved in and never paid the rent, and when
the owner called and asked for it, Henn called back screaming, and left a
message on the owner’s answering machine, threatening the owner with a gun."
"We called the police and had him
forcibly evicted," Tememe said.
Confirmed
a neighbor named Tanya, who has lived at the location over three years, "Oh,
yes, I remember Patric. He was a party boy. Had lots of guys and girls coming
over. But he lived there alone."
Tememe
remembered Henn moving in alone, but having a straight couple stay with him,
"but the other guy I think married the woman just for immigration purposes."
They were all thrown out of the apartment.
In fact, Henn, who
does not have a Driver’s License, does have a Florida Identification Card, which
he acquired on January 12, 2000. It lists his address, not Andersen’s, as 751
Meridian Avenue in South Beach.
Confirms
Mr. Tememe, "We never had a lease at 751 Meridian Avenue for Andersen."
The Express has learned that Henn moved
from Miami Beach to Key West sometime in 2000, staying there for four months in
a rocky relationship with a convicted criminal named John Wesley
Caris.Apparently, Caris, 38, was charged by Henn with stalking, but was
acquitted.
Contradictions over
Citizenship
Henn additionally swore in his affidavit
that Andersen was born on July 4, 1973, in Toronto, and that he was a Canadian
citizen, who had served in the U.S. armed forces, and, at the time he perished,
was a public relations consultant.
During
an interview with The Express, Henn stated Andersen was "no big hero; just a
semi-retired wealthy businessman, into investing, and the mail order
distribution business, owning apartments in South Beach and New York." He never
indicated Andersen had been a public relations consultant.
A public records check revealed no
property belonging to Andersen in either South Beach or New York City. Nor does
Andersen have either a Florida or New York’s driver license, as Henn claimed.
And according to a representative for the
Canadian Passport Agency’s Bureau of Microfilm Research, Julie Picard, "I did a
research from 1981 to 2002. Nothing came back on the name of Jeff John Andersen
with a birth date of July 4, 1973. We have no passport for such a person."
According to Monique La Flamme, who is
with the Counselor’s Bureau of Canadian Foreign Affairs, "It would be very
unusual for a Canadian with dual citizenship not to have a passport for travel
purposes."
Additionally, La Flamme’s
search of the official list of Canadian citizens missing or dead in the World
Trade Center attacks does not include ‘Jeff John Andersen.’
Henn was asked by the Express why
Andersen’s name also does not appear on any of the official lists of missing
persons, as recorded by the Associated Press or CNN.
Henn claimed that Andersen’s name got
mistakenly confused with Kermit Anderson, who does appear on a number of
advisory disaster-related lists.
Says a
CNN representative, "We only inputted the information we were given from
legitimate authorities, agencies, and victims. In the case of Kermit Anderson,
we had substantial documentation."
Henn
admits listing Jeff Andersen’s name on www.911-remember.com, an
unofficial list. Next to Andersen’s name, however, there is no biographical
description or summary, as with other victims.
The Express then discovered that there
was a Kermit Anderson who perished in the attack. But he was a 57-year-old
married systems analyst from Green Brook, New Jersey whose body was recovered
from the WTC.
Except for the
911.remember.com lists, all the lists with Kermit’s name record detailed
biographical facts about the deceased gentlemen.
Miss Loter, of the New York City Bureau
of Vital Statistics, has a complete list of all the death certificates issued as
a result of the World Trade Center attacks. There is a death certificate for
Kermit Anderson. None was ever issued for Jeff John Andersen.
"We are not confused. We know who Kermit
Anderson was," she said.
According to
representatives from the New York Law Department, that would mean, as to
Andersen, that either the application was never submitted, or it was submitted
but not substantiated with any proof.
Questions About Family
Members
On Henn’s sworn
affidavit for benefits, he lists Andersen’s mother as 83 years old, living on
Washington Avenue in Laguna Beach, California. After a thorough records search,
The Express discovered there is no Washington Avenue in Laguna Beach.
Conveniently,
there is a Washington Avenue in Miami Beach, just one block east of the Meridian
Avenue address where Henn lived in 2000.
The Express investigation further revealed a Barbara Andersen on Seville Drive
in nearby Laguna Woods, who was rather elderly, but she claimed, "I did not have
a son named Jeff, and I do not know any Patric Henn."
Henn’s affidavit then documents
Andersen’s father as a deceased gentleman by the name of Raymond. Henn had told
Red Cross personnel that Andersen was there on legal business to rewrite his
will and name Henn as a beneficiary.
Henn
told The Express that after the attacks he contacted Andersen’s mother, who
lived on the West Coast, and she came to New York to assist Henn in obtaining a
death certificate for her son.
Andersen’s
mother, whom Henn described as being "frail" and in her "eighties," was
scheduled to come to ESPA during that trip as well. She was to sign documents
acknowledging Henn and Andersen’s relationship. It never happened.
At the time that the letter was supposed
to be turned in, Henn told ESPA representatives that Andersen’s mother had taken
off "for a safari to North Africa and could no longer be reached."
ESPA and other relief agencies contacted
have never heard back from any family members of Andersen.
If You Don’t Succed, Try
Again
Henn admitted that immediately after the tragedy, while in New York, he sought
emergency relief funds from various agencies, including the ‘Crime Victims
Board’, but was turned down because he could not prove a ‘loss of support.’
Henn said "No one there knew what was
going on. They had no sympathy for what I was going through."
Henn adds he was turned down for funds
from the federal government and the Salvation Army because ‘he was gay.’
He claims that is when he turned to ESPA,
who turned him on to the Red Cross, United Way and other agencies more
sympathetic to same sex couples.
In
December, however, he called The Express to complain that ESPA was not helping
him sufficiently.
When The Express began
asking for receipts or bills or any documentation, even photographs, to support
his claim, he declared the situation "too traumatic to deal with, and besides, I
have put everything in storage."
Last
month, however, he said that he retained a "media advisor to handle interviews,"
but then he refused to discuss whom he hired or where they were based.
Meanwhile, he told one of his neighbors
less than a week ago that he "would soon be appearing on Dateline."
When he did talk, he said of his
‘partner,’ Andersen, "He turned my life around, even if we did not live together
three or four months at a time. He was a great guy whether we were together or
not."
Frozen Accounts?
Henn indicates that after the attacks he desperately needed help because ‘both’
banks froze his joint accounts with Andersen, but refused to provide any
documentation to substantiate any such accounts ever existed.
Henn also told the Red Cross, The
Express, and other agencies that he and Andersen had placed all their belongings
in storage before the attack because they had bought a house together in
Lighthouse Point.
When asked last month
why such a sale was not recorded on the Broward County Property Appraiser’s
public access website, Henn responded, "You do not understand, we had a deposit
in escrow…we were going to be buying the house."
When asked to say which realtor, agent,
or lawyer handled the sale or retained the escrow deposit, Henn refused to
answer, claiming he was "trying to put the past behind him."
When asked to indicate to whom the escrow
deposit was returned after the tragedy, Henn stated that his lawyer was handling
those affairs.
When asked to supply the
name of that lawyer, or provide any documentation in support of his assertion,
he refused.
A record search has revealed
no estate has been opened up in Broward, Dade or Manhattan counties for Jeff
John Andersen. A motor vehicles title search revealed no current tags or
registrations in Andersen’s name.
Empire Aid
Nevertheless Henn, with the help of the
Empire State Pride Agenda, did eventually secure substantial financial relief,
in the thousands and thousands of dollars.
He credits the Red Cross and the United
Way’s September 11 Fund with helping him to survive since the attacks, though he
has become harshly critical of the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA) and its
disbursement of funds targeted for gay and lesbian survivors.
Henn admitted receiving an emergency loan
of $1,000 from ESPA and admits he at one time asked them for more money, but he
complained in January "the current funds are coming too late."
"They turned me into a beggar," he says.
"I was entitled to money from them in September and October, but it is a slap in
the face to finally get it now. They can keep their cash. I am not taking it."
He also said they waited until November to give him anything. Not true, we
learned.
Henn Got Thousands With No
Proof
Matt Foreman has recently resigned as Executive Director of the Empire State
Pride Agenda. In that capacity, he dealt with Henn personally after the
disaster.
Foreman and other
representatives of the ESPA dispute Henn’s angry assertions, saying they went
out of their way for Henn without a good faith mutual showing on his part.
Foreman told The Express that Henn was
"more than welcome to his share of the money as a surviving partner," but Henn
never came up with the necessary proof, "or any proof, for that matter, that he
actually had a relationship with Andersen."
"I spent an enormous amount of time
attempting to help Mr. Henn, but he was unable to provide one scrap of
information to document his relationship with Jeff John Andersen," says Foreman.
Foreman said his assistance ended when
Henn failed to substantiate his claim after weeks of asking for documentation,
"I am sorry, but after dealing with someone for over a six to eight week period,
at a certain point it seemed logical that they can get access to something
proving the relationship, even a utility bill, a check, contract, or one scrap
of paper- especially if they were sitting with joint bank accounts as he
claimed."
Of the $1,000 that they sent
Henn, said Foreman, "I had to cash the check for Henn myself. On one hand, he
said he had joint accounts with Andersen in New York and Florida. But when we
got his check, he had no proof of any banking relationship in New York, so I
cashed it for him."
Although Henn
complained ESPA did not provide him with any money until mid November, copies of
the check revealed he cashed it on October 3. "And when I would not immediately
give him more money without proof, he became abusive," Foreman stated.
Even so, Foreman said that Henn actually
received more funds than most surviving partners did. "He got everything that
any other surviving same-sex partner got and then some," says Foreman.
ESPA assisted Henn in acquiring thousands
of dollars in Red Cross funds, as well as over a half-dozen round-trip flights
to New York with upscale hotel accommodations.
Henn also received $5,000 from the
non-profit organization Safe Horizons, perhaps the nation’s leading victim
advocacy organization.
Henn confirmed
also that he has received thousands of dollars from the 9-11 fund administered
by the United Way.
Foreman admits cutting
Henn off later. "Our hearts went out to this guy, but we stopped because there
was no evidence to document what he was saying," he says.
"If he says he had a relationship, he
should show it in some way. For someone who constantly boasted that he had a
‘Louis Vuitton lifestyle’ to maintain, it is highly unlikely that he wouldn’t
want to prove it, some way, some how."
Noble Goals
Joe Tarver is Media Director for ESPA, and he
explained the disbursement process for 9-11 funds.
"We have raised $200,000, and we promised
the gay and lesbian community that we were going to distribute funds as quickly
as possible. The fund was set up to address the inequity we face in terms of
having no social security or worker’s compensation funds for gay partners. This
was an effort by the gay and lesbian community to take care of its own, and to
highlight how we are not eligible for those programs."
It was that noble goal, Foreman says,
which inspired him to advance Henn funds initially.
Tarver says Henn’s story stopped making
sense when he "started contradicting himself, and then threatening to go to the
media to expose us for not giving him money upon demand." Tarver adds, "He had
no proof."
While Henn now accuses ESPA as
an agency "out only to further their political initiatives," he failed to submit
an application to claim same-sex survivor funds from ESPA’s Disbursement
Treasury. It would have required a formal written application by February 14,
"with proof and documentation," says Foreman.
"Frankly," says Foreman, "we have not
heard from Henn since we threatened to go to the police about him."
Tarver indicated that after the attacks,
a procedure was set up to insure surviving partners could substantiate their
claims.
"Most surviving partners we
helped were grateful. It did take some of them a few weeks to get their
documentation together, but, after a short time, we had everybody’s- over 20-
except Henn. At that point, a red flag went up."
Henn Lays An Egg
Confronted by the claims of ESPA
representatives, Henn then told The Express that he gave everybody at the agency
"joint leases, joint bills, for New York and South Beach."
But says Foreman, "That’s a bald faced
lie. We never got a thing. Not an iota or shred of substantiation or
documentation- nothing- nor has any agency we checked with."
Henn also refused to provide The Express
with any of the copies of any of the documents he purportedly gave to ESPA.
As The Express interviewed ESPA
representatives, it was discovered that the stories Henn told this newspaper and
their agency were inconsistent.
Henn told
The Express and the Red Cross that immediately after the September 11 tragedy,
he hitchhiked from Miami to New York to search for his partner.
ESPA’s Foreman said Henn told him "that
he got on a plane immediately and flew from Miami to New York." Someone else he
told he got there on a Greyhound bus.
No Death Certificate
More troubling is no family members of Andersen’s have ever independentlycome
forward to any authority since the tragedy.
All the sources interviewed for this
story commented that Henn never supplied them with any accurate contact
information for Andersen’s mother, or any relatives.
Henn told one agency that "Andersen’s
sister and mother wanted him to handle all the affairs" while they were in New
York.
Still, no family member came
forward and secured a death certificate with the New York Law Department. Nor
did any other family member fill out an intake sheet with the New York Law
Department at the emergency headquarters set up at Pier 94.
At some point, Henn had also told Red
Cross representatives in New York that Andersen was actually in New York at the
World Trade Center for the purpose of rewriting his will to make Henn a
beneficiary, since his mother was aging, "and did not need the money anymore."
If Henn’s application for a death
certificate is truthful, and Barbara Andersen was 83 years old, and Jeff 28, she
would have given birth to her son at age 55.
Andersen does not appear on the official
Associated Press list of 2,940 dead that includes the names of other victims
that left behind same-sex survivors.
Tarver says he questioned Henn about why several checks of the official lists of
victims failed to include any documentation about Andersen.
"Every other victim that we worked with
showed up on the list except for his partner. When I confronted Henn about it,
he became belligerent and didn’t want to talk about it."
The Many Ages of Jeff John
Andersen
Alerted to a potential fraud, Foreman and ESPA reps also asked Henn to provide
them Andersen’s social security number, but he never did so. It is easy to
understand why. In his notarized request affidavit for aid, Henn listed
Andersen’s social as 534-18-3720.
A
confidential records search revealed that the number did not belong to Andersen,
and a Social Security official indicated that the number he gave would not
belong to someone born in Toronto in 1973.
However, Henn, born in Washington, D.C.,
in 1975, has a social security number which does begin with the numhers 534.
Foreman admits his agency initially
failed to thoroughly question Henn on this because the Red Cross had already
assessed him, and he "never would have thought that someone would take advantage
of and manipulate the system in a time of crisis."
In his first interview with The Express
in December, Henn said he was financially "taken care of" by Andersen, who
supported him with money from investments and earnings from his business,
"occasionally promoting club parties."
Henn also stated that Andersen was "an older partner, 38 years old." Yet Henn’s
affidavit for relief funds lists Andersen as 28 years of age.
Says Foreman of ESPA, "He told me
Andersen was 34."
But says Barbara
Cardino, one of his next-door neighbors since Thanksgiving, "He constantly
alluded to his partner being an older man in his 40’s and 50’s."
Another neighbor, Ellen Robins, says "The
pictures he showed us of Jeff were of a naked young hunk in his 20’s." Those
kind of inconsistencies have made his neighbors very suspicious of Henn.
When The Express called for clarification
on February 9, Henn said Andersen was "28, 29 or 30," and he had no pictures.
But The Express has now obtained a
picture of the person Henn identified to friends as Jeff John Andersen.
Apparently taken in the Fall of 2000, it shows
Henn and his partner, fully exposed, wearing scantily clad Halloween costumes.
If the time frame is accurate, it is when
Henn was living in Key West, not with Jeff Andersen, but a roommate named Joe C.
Mitchell, who referred to himself as "The Canadian."
Open Investigation by NYPD
Detective Walter Burnes, in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office of the New York
City Police Department Public Information Bureau is not surprised: "We are
investigating over 120 fraud claims connected with the World Trade Center
attack, and I can’t tell you about this one, because it is an ongoing
investigation."
Henn also refused to
provide original photos or documentation of himself or Andersen, for this story,
telling both The Express and the organizations that he was "too distraught" and
"wanted to leave it all behind him" and "not be recognized."
"You don’t understand how rare loving
relationships are in the gay community," Henn said. "I loved that man. He loved
me."
When asked to supply a picture of
his partner for publication, he said that he had none, and showed The Express
only a grainy photocopy of a newspaper photo.
But his new next-door neighbor, in Middle
River Terrace, Ellen Robins, claimed that he had lots of pictures of the person
he says died in the World Trade Center attack, and he has them right in the
living room on his shelf.
"I don’t
understand him now," she said. "He has become a pissy drama queen if he does not
get his way. Last week, he said he had to go to Washington, D.C., for two days,
and asked me to watch his dog. He never called and came back five days later."
The weekend Ellen referred to was the
same weekend he told The Express he was in New York with Andersen’s mother and
his friend, Iris.
Henn also went on to
say he and Andersen were in the process of arranging to adopt a Vietnamese child
to move into their new home in Lighthouse Point.
When asked to produce papers to
substantiate the claim, Henn said he had none. When reminded that Florida does
not allow gay adoptions, Henn said he "could talk no longer."
If they were going to adopt a child, one
place he would not have lived was at the address Henn says he was living at on
September 11, 2001, the Adams-Tyler Collins Park Hotels at 450 21st Street on
South Beach.
A run-down complex of aging
and beaten apartment buildings, which rent weekly and monthly, the apartment
manager, Linda, remembers Patric Henn, "I am glad he is gone. He was here a few
months, was always late with his rent. No one lived with him, but more than that
is confidential."
Someone who did confide
in The Express was Danny Daez, who stated he was searching for an apartment with
Henn in South Beach at the end of August, 2001, less than two weeks before the
attacks.
"Oh, Patric was devastated after
9-11. He told me he took a Greyhound bus to New York City. I think he is an
adorable, friendly boy, but no, I don’t know any Jeff Andersen that he lived
with. I don’t know any lover that he had. I thought we were supposed to become
roommates together but it did not work out. If you see him, tell him I said
hello."
Red Cross Tried to Help
Laila Haddad, the Public Affairs Officer of the Broward County chapter of the
American Red Cross admits that due to the emergency nature of the catastrophe
the agency was ‘loose’ in collecting documentation.
"We have not demanded all kinds of proof
to place an additional burden on people that have already gone through enough,"
says Haddad. "Sure it’s going to happen that people get money that they
shouldn’t, but there is fraud in every busines. We do not make people jump
through hoops, but we don’t look the other way when people try to get away with
something, either."
Carmen
Almeida-Biggart, the Broward County Red Cross’s Disaster Community Educator
helped to procure thousands of dollars for Henn. She says she is dumbfounded by
the case.
"This is one of those mysteries
that has haunted me," she says. "Everybody is amazed because we went along with
[his story] in the early days, and nobody wanted to upset anybody. He might have
slipped through, but I hope I’m wrong."
Almeida-Biggart claimed that Henn was "unbearable" as a client, "until he got
his checks. He made life miserable for us. He came along and screamed the
loudest and he was able to get everything. We were more understanding to the
difficulties for gays in collecting claims, so we have tried to err on the side
of the client. But to have someone possibly do this- ‘It is unbelievable!’ - to
ride on the backs of victims of this disaster. He has hurt more people than he
will ever realize.To use his gayness as an excuse for lacking documentation
hurts all of us."
Almeida-Biggart says
that since the national office of the American Red Cross referred Henn’s case to
her, she reasonably assumed that all the documentation for his claim had been
verified.
Accordingly, she says that she
did not collect any additional proof from Henn. "We went on the referral from
the national office. They sent him to us, and approved everything we gave him.
Plus we knew he had already been assisted by other relief agencies. We thought
he was authentic."
The Red Cross was
overly generous. They paid almost all of Henn’s expenses, costs, and bills for
the last few months. He bragged to his neighbors about how they paid the first
month’s rent and security deposit for his new apartment in Middle River Terrace.
The Red Cross also paid for Henn’s stay
at numerous gay guesthouses on the Fort Lauderdale Beach and luxury hotels in
New York City.
Thrown Out of Guesthouse
At
least one gay guesthouse threw Henn out for being disruptive, and another, the
Grand Resort, excused his fees, not even billing the Red Cross for his
four-night luxury stay.
Stated one of the
owners, "He was a strange kind of fellow."
After staying one night at the Royal
Palms, on October 24, however, Henn said he had to leave because "they had found
his lover’s body."
And indeed, the Red
Cross did fly him up to New York to identify his lover’s body, but that was
three days before he even stayed at the Royal Palms.
Henn indicated on one of his guest
registration forms that he and his partner Andersen lived at 230 West 54th
Street in New York City, and that he "lost his apartment in NY on 9-11."
Unfortunately for Henn, that address is
not a residence. It is the Ameritania Hotel, at the corner of Broadway and 54th,
where the Red Cross paid for Henn to stay after the tragedy.
While hotel registration forms are
confidential, in early October, Henn listed his residential addresses with one
guesthouse, as 521 Northeast 4th Avenue, in Fort Lauderdale. But that, too, is
not a residence. It is the business office of the Red Cross.
Said one guesthouse owner, who now feels
burned, "In retrospect, it does not make sense. If he had a lover who paid his
way, and he was being truthful, why would he be homeless by October?"
He went on, "Why would he tell one guest
house he lived in South Beach, another he lived at the Red Cross, and another he
lived in New York City? I thought his partner Jeff supplied him with elegance."
Arrested With Stolen Tags
Automobiles became another vehicle for Henn’s
deceptions and inconsistencies. ESPA official Tarver says Henn told him that he
had shared two cars with Andersen, but Henn failed to provide "so much as one
registration, one copy of a payment notice, or one insurance bill."
When asked where the cars were now, Henn
told The Express "One was repossessed in October, and the other he placed ‘in
hiding.’" When asked to show documentation of those vehicles, Henn said they
were in storage.
When asked to explain
how the vehicle belonging to Andersen would have been repossessed as early as
October if Andersen had owned them and were paying for them on a timely basis,
Henn had no explanation, and said he was refusing to answer any more questions.
One thing that did get put in storage for
a week was the Alpha Romeo that Henn purchased on December 29.
Henn was driving in Fort Lauderdale on
the afternoon of February 14 when he was pulled over for expired tags by a Fort
Lauderdale patrolman.
Henn was arrested
for driving without a license and unlawful use of a stolen tag.
Defiantly, he gave false information to
Officer Hector Martinez, whose probable cause affidavit reads that the
"defendant claimed to have a New York Driver’s License, but I ran a check, and
no license came up."
The vehicle was
impounded. Now returned to Henn’s driveway, the vehicle sits covered with a
tarp, and no tags on it at all.
Says
another neighbor, Jim Dagg, "He told me the car was in the shop being repaired.
He never said he got arrested and it was towed."
Added Ellen, "That’s him. Dishonest. One
day he says he is in detox or rehab, and then he is partying the next, usually
in bathhouses. If he does not get his way.
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