Agents with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development revealed to Roanoke Rapids police that Piepad Jaramillio, 32, got federal housing assistance for a house at 61 Madison Street although she held steady jobs in New York.
Captain Andy Jackson of the Roanoke Rapids Police Department said investigation by Detective Jeff Baggett revealed that Jaramillo allegedly defrauded the government since 2008 when she first began getting assistance for the Roanoke Rapids house. It is unclear why she chose Roanoke Rapids.
The woman, who is a legal citizen of the United States, worked transcribing medical records for doctors and in 2009 earned $26,942. Last year she earned $30,025 and this year had earned $18,300. At the time she was interviewed by authorities in May she was making $29 an hour working for a doctor's office in New York.
She received a total of $19,477 in housing assistance from October of 2008 to May, Jackson said. Federal housing agents became suspicious when they began reviewing her tax records.
The 32 counts represent every month she received a check, Jackson said.
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