A woman from Tennessee has been arrested in Baxter County for forging paperwork to take property from her aunt. The woman, 30-year-old Cheyenne Summer Schubert of Crossville, turned herself in at the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office Monday morning.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office, a woman reported she had been deeded property by a family member which was filed in 2023. When she received her property tax bill in February of this year, the property was not listed.
The investigation revealed a quitclaim deed had been filed last July with the signatures of the two relatives who had left the property to the victim, transferring it to Schubert who is the niece of the victim.
The deed was filed a few weeks after the deaths of both people whose signatures were on the original deed. Investigators determined the signature of one of them was forged and the other was inconclusive. Schubert had the document notarized in Tennessee in December of 2021 and the man whose signature was forged was incarcerated in Arkansas at the time and could not have been in Tennessee to sign the document in front of a notary. The notary is the husband of Schubert.
Schubert is charged with a felony count of second degree forgery. She is free on $25,000 bond.
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