A South Fulton HOA director is charged with forging a deed to take a unit
A South Fulton HOA director is charged with forging a deed to take a unit
2026-09-10 · Georgia · Compliance · Reported — unconfirmed
What happened. A homeowners association director at Camelot Condominiums on Old National Highway in South Fulton, Fulton County, was arrested in 2025 on charges arising from an allegedly forged deed transferring a unit into her own name.
Tabetha Rowe was booked into the Fulton County Jail on 15 July 2025 by the South Fulton Police Department.1
The charges
Charges reported across outlets include:
- two counts of first-degree forgery;
- theft by deception;
- fraud;
- theft related to registration of title to land;
- making false statements or writings;
- concealment of facts in government matters; and
- violation of Georgia's notary laws.
The allegation
Investigators believe Rowe forged signatures on a quitclaim deed in August 2023 to transfer ownership of 424 Camelot Drive into her own name. Two people whose names appear on the deed told investigators they never signed it.
Fox 5 Atlanta reported she was due back in court on 7 August 2025 and had been ordered to stay away from the complex.2
Procedural stage: arrested and charged. We found no indictment, plea, conviction or sentence, and no defence-counsel comment in the coverage we reviewed. Nothing here establishes guilt.
The second case at the same complex
What makes this more than a single incident is that it is the second criminal matter at Camelot.
In November 2023, then-president Bettye Ligon and treasurer Lyndon Baldwin Sr. were charged with theft by taking and theft by conversion over insurance funds — reported as roughly $250,000 after a first 2020 fire and $1.5 million after a second — intended for owners of 24 units destroyed by two fires in 2020. Reporting at the time indicated only six of the 24 owners received money. Ligon turned herself in; Baldwin surrendered later that month.3
That case predates our review window and we found no 2025-2026 disposition for it.
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- “HOA director of Camelot Condos arrested, charged with fraud and forgery” — 11Alive ↩
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